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Earth’s Oldest-Known Meteor Crash Site Discovered In The Australian Outback
Scientists believe a crater found in the Australian outback may be the oldest-known meteor crash site in the world. As AFP ...
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The World’s Oldest Asteroid Crater Has Finally Been Identified – And It May Have Changed Earth’s Climate
The Vredefort crater in South Africa ... Thomas Davison of Imperial College London ran computer simulations of an asteroid 7 kilometers wide crashing into an ice-covered Earth at 17 kilometers ...
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Vredefort crater (IMAGE)
An impactor--most likely an asteroid--hurtled toward Earth about two billion years ago, crashing into the planet near present-day Johannesburg, South Africa. The impactor formed Vredefort crater ...
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5 of the Biggest Extraterrestrial Impacts That Moved Oceans and Made Moons
Chelyabinsk Meteor Compared to ancient giant impacts ... was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005. Predictably, Vredefort Crater is now a hub of tourism and geologic research. 4. Chicxulub ...