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Meteor craters around the world. |
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 | Two symmetrical pit craters side-by-side, one of the few examples of this type of crater in the U.S. The pit craters, which were lava conduits, were formed by explosions and then a collapse. |  | 11/11/2008 | 258 | 
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 | Craters mark the bombing of Užice-Ponikve Airport, Serbia during the Yugoslavian war. |  | 02/03/2008 | 362 |
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 | WWII Bomb Craters near the coast at Calais |  | 02/03/2008 | 368 |
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 | Perfect crater in Northern Ontario, Canada |  | 10/03/2007 | 522 |
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 | September 16, 2007
Villagers in southern Peru were struck by a mysterious illness after a meteorite made a fiery crash to Earth in their area, regional authorities said on Monday. At around midday on Saturday, villagers were startled by an explosion and a fireball that many were convinced was an airplane crashing near their remote village, located in the high Andes department of ... | | 09/19/2007 | 602 |
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 | It is a volcanic area in Konya in Turkey. There are a lot of crater and crater lake closely to this area. I counted approximately 51 craters in this view. | | 08/27/2007 | 688 |
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 | This seems to be a relatively new meteor crater on the west coast of Western Sahara. | | 03/15/2007 | 1,219 |
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 | Bimmah Sinkhole on the coast of Oman |  | 12/10/2006 | 825 |
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 | I think it's not a volcano crater but a meteor crater. diameter: 7 km | | 12/07/2006 | 1,255 |
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 | Meteor craters
A SELECTION OF OVER 60 METEORCRATERS AND IMPACTS ON EARTH
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 | This a recently found large crater in Antarctica, that was created by a 50 kilometres wide space rock 250 million years ago, and contributed to, or caused the Permian-Triassic extinction, the greatest mass extinction on Earth.
The crater is about 500 kilometres wide, and is now buried beneath 1 kilometre of ice. It was found by looking at differences in density that show up in gravity me... | | 06/02/2006 | 1,565 |
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 | Darwin Crater was discovered in 1972 by Ramsay J. Ford. The crater lies 26 km south of Queenstown Tasmania.
The crater was formed by a 20 - 50 m diameter asteroid that struck the Earth approximately 730,000 +/- 40,000 years ago.
The crater has a diameter of 1.2km and is 230 metres deep. It was a lake until about 30 000 years ago, today it is filled with sediment. The crater is ass... | | 05/28/2006 | 663 |
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 | Depicted in this file are over 26,000 meteorite hits from around the world showing:
1- Name
2- Type(stone,iron ect)
2- Coordinates:
3- Where They Find or Fall:
4- Date:When Recovered
5- Recovered Weight:
6- Group
7- Petrologic type: (example: Hexahedrite -Pallasite, Ataxite,ect)
8- Shock stage
9- Weathering grade
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 | NEWS RELEASE
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FirebalDetection
U S satellites detected the impact of a bolide near Bodiabo in Siberia at 16:48:56 UTC on 24 September 2002.<> The object was simultaneously detected by b... |  | 03/31/2006 | 1,006 |
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 | A possible impact crater site is the feature known as St. Magnus Bay in the Shetland Islands.
A massive impact seems to be the cause for the peculiar shape of the bay.
It has a diameter of eleven kilometres and is about 165m deep, which is very deep for the coastal waters in the region. The crater is oval in shape because of the east-west geological compression that the area... | | 03/18/2006 | 536 |
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 | Does anyone know what happened here?!? If you do, email me and tell me and I will edit this. And wth is that green stuff in the holes?!? | | 03/14/2006 | 2,980 |
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 | The crater is about 19 miles (31 kilometers) wide, more than twice as big as the next largest Saharan crater known. The timing of the impact has not been determined.
The impact that carved Kebira might have created an extensive field of yellow-green silica fragments, known as desert glass and found on the surface between the giant dunes of the Great Sand Sea in southwestern Egypt... | | 03/05/2006 | 1,052 |
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 | Mahuika crater is a submarine bolide impact crater, 20±2 kilometres wide and over 153 meters deep, on the New Zealand continental shelf, named for the Maori god of fire.
Researchers have found evidence from an Ice Core indicating that the large Impact occurred circa 1443 A.D.
Samples taken from the West Antarctic Siple Dome ice core that date between 1440 and 1448 A.D. show high ... |  | 01/28/2006 | 698 |
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 | This is perhaps the site of a devastating meteor impact in the Middle East.
The catastrophic effect from which could explain the mystery of why so many early cultures went into sudden decline around 2300 BC.
Today's crater lies on what would have been shallow sea 4,000 years ago, and any impact would have caused devastating fires and flooding.
The near circular, ~3.4 km-d... |  | 01/28/2006 | 763 |
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 | The Odessa crater was formed by a spectacular collision with our planet of an iron meteorite 63,500 years ago.
The Odessa meteorite, named after the town ten miles southwest in western Texas not far from the southeastern corner of New Mexico carved out five clustered craters, four small ones and a larger one. The largest is about 525 feet across and nearly 100 feet deep.
Discove... | | 01/25/2006 | 1,009 |
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 | The Sirente crater field of more than 20 extremely well preserved structures was discovered during the late 1990s and was originally though to be due to a very recent meteoritic impact (about 1500 years ago).
However, further investigations now points to it being a water reservoir for human pastoral activity. Another plausible alternative is that it is periglacial feature (i.e. Pingo). | 01/18/2006 | 466 |
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 | A 1-4 km diameter asteroid splashed into the Southern Ocean, 1500 km SW of Chile at a time that saw the emergence of modern humans.
The Eltanin crater is located in the Bellinghausen Sea, and occurred 2.15±0.5 Million years ago The Eltanin Impact Layer asteroidal debris found within that was first discovered as an Iridium anomaly in 1981. In 2004 a possible source crater was found und... | | 01/13/2006 | 485 |
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 | West Hawk Lake basin is a metorite impact structure; popular with SCUBA enthusiasts, deepest point is 110 meters. | | 01/07/2006 | 781 |
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 | Bjurbole is the biggest recent meteorite fall found in Finland so far. This meteorite broke into many pieces when it hits the sea ice in the gulf of Finland, on the 12 March 1899.
328 kg of material were recovered from 8 meters deep (0.4 meter ice 0.5 meter water and 7 meters mud) by divers. The meteorite had made a 4 meter wide hole in the ice, and mud was spread over a 24 x 33 m wide... | | 01/02/2006 | 634 |
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 | Impacts by extraterrestrial bodies | | 12/31/2005 | 1,330 |
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