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The impactor formed Vredefort crater, what is today the biggest crater on our planet. Using updated simulation data, University of Rochester researchers discovered the impactor that formed ...
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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 ...
Currently, the biggest impact crater found on Earth is the Vredefort crater in South Africa, which is 160 km (99 miles) wide and was likely made around 2 billion years ago. Scientists have ...
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