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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Asteroid that formed ancient crater larger than previously believed
South Africa. 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 ...
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Earth's oldest asteroid impact 'may have ended ice age'
The crater was discovered in the dry outback ... older than the next most ancient impact structure - the Vredefort Dome in South Africa. "We were interested in the area because the Western ...
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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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A mystery 300-mile wide formation lurking beneath Australia may be the largest asteroid impact crater on Earth
That would be an impact bigger than any other documented on Earth. That includes the Vredefort impact structure in South Africa, which is thought to have been between 100 and 200 miles wide ...