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Earth’s Oldest-Known Meteor Crash Site Discovered In The Australian OutbackScientists 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 ClimateThe Vredefort crater in South Africa, estimated to be 2.023 billion years old, was long considered Earth’s oldest impact structure. However, new research places Yarrabubba at least 200 million ...
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 ...
Its Earth-shattering speed caused the atmosphere to shred it ... was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005. Predictably, Vredefort Crater is now a hub of tourism and geologic research. 4.
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