A man accidentally discovered an ancient meteor crater on Google Maps
Currently, the biggest impact crater found on Earth is the Vredefort crater in South Africa, which is 160 km (99 miles) wide ...
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The steady hail of meteors pummeling the Moon
It was the biggest space rock to hit Earth since 1908. Radius, in miles, of the Vredefort crater, the largest known sign of impact on Earth. The crater — in Free State, South Africa — was ...
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Asteroid that formed ancient crater larger than previously believed
The impactor—most likely an asteroid—formed what is today the biggest crater on the planet. Scientists have widely accepted, based on previous research, that the impact structure, known as the ...
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Barringer to Vredefort: 7 oldest meteor impact craters on Earth
this 66-million-year-old crater is over 180 kilometers in diameter. Visitors can explore the surrounding cenotes Dating back ...
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Earth's oldest asteroid impact 'may have ended ice age'
The crater was discovered in the dry outback in ... million years older than the next most ancient impact structure - the Vredefort Dome in South Africa. "We were interested in the area because ...
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The world's oldest asteroid struck Earth 2.2 billion years ago triggering one of the first global warming episodes in history
Till now, the oldest asteroid impact on Earth was the Vredefort Dome in South Africa. However, researchers at Curtin University have found that new asteroid impact crater in Australia dates back ...
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Scientists pinpointed the oldest meteor crater ever found. When the space rock struck Australia 2.2 billion years ago, it ended a global ice age.
The next oldest impact crater site on the planet is the giant Vredefort Dome in South Africa, which is 2.02 billion years old. After that is the Sudbury impact structure in Ontario, Canada ...