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Meteor craters around the world. |
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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 | 712 | 
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 | Impacts by extraterrestrial bodies |  | 12/31/2005 | 1,548 |
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 | Mjolnir Crater is a recently discovered ringed structure about 24 miles wide on the floor of the Barents Sea. It is the result of the impact, roughly 142.0 ± 2.6 million years ago (Lower Cretaceous), of a 1 -3 Km wide asteroid-like body.
Estimates indicate that the energy released in the impact could have been as high as a million megatons of TNT, resulting in immense (7.7 to 8.7 magn... | | 12/27/2005 | 805 |
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 | Deep Crater. Volcano Calderon Hondo in the Island of Fuerteventura |  | 12/14/2005 | 1,829 |
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 | Some Meteors Craters. | | 12/13/2005 | 1,141 |
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 | The 35-40-km diameter Azuara impact structure is located in northeast Spain roughly 50 km south of Zaragoza. Its age is estimated to be Upper Eocene or Oligocene, though ages of 130 and 40 Million years have been offered. It is possible that Azuara and the close by Rubiela de la Cérida impact craters formed during the same event. |  | 12/10/2005 | 864 |
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 | Impact crater In Tocantins - Uma cratera provocada pelo choque de um meteoro com a Terra no estado do Tocantins, Brasil. | | 12/10/2005 | 1,055 |
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 | This exceptionally long and bright fireball was seen throughout the Yukon, Northern British Columbia, parts of Alaska, and the Northwest Territories.
Pieces of the 56-metric-ton meteorite rained down over a wide area of Canada on January 18, 2000, at approximately 16:43 UT (08:43 PST local).
Many pieces landed on the frozen Tagish Lake, allowing scientists to recover numerous samp... |  | 12/10/2005 | 538 |
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 | The Silverpit crater in the North Sea was discovered in 2002 during a seismic oil exploration .
The crater is about 2.4 km wide and surrounded by a set of concentric rings, which extend to about 10 km away from its centre.
Its age is thought to be about 65 million years old, roughly coincident with the formation of the Chicxulub Crater.
The crater currently lies below a ... |  | 12/09/2005 | 980 |
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 | Ilopango is a caldera that formed in 260 A.D. Ash from this explosive eruption covered much of central El Salvador. Lake Ilopango fills part of the caldera. Islas Quemadas, a volcanic dome, formed within the caldera in 1879-1880. Periods of dome extrusion coincided with tidal forces. Earthquake swarms preceded each extrusion. | | 12/02/2005 | 387 |
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 | A 180 km wide crater, called Bedout, off the northwestern coast of Australia was caused by an asteroidal impactor (estimated the size of Mt. Everest) that struck 250.1 +/- 1 million years ago forming the Permian/Triassic boundary (end of the Paleozoic) .
This event is sometimes known as `the Great Dying`, because 97% of all life became extinct.
This was one of the worst events in... | | 11/20/2005 | 994 |
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 | A strewnfield of craters around Lake Chiemsee, in south-east Bavaria, which may have been caused by fragments of a huge comet that broke up in the Earth’s atmosphere.
More than 80 craters were found in an elliptical area 36 miles long and 17 wide, ranging in size from 10 to 1,215 feet across. The largest, filled with water, now formed Lake Tuttensee.
Evidence from ancient tree rin... | | 11/17/2005 | 425 |
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 | Mount Toondina crater, South Australia. Mount Toondina crater is 4 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be less than 110 million years. | | 11/03/2005 | 547 |
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 | A Crater resembling the "Sagittarius" in Istanbul. |  | 11/01/2005 | 486 |
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 | Chiyli impact crater Kazakhstan.The crater is 5.5 km in diameter and is estimated to be 46 million years old. | | 10/22/2005 | 473 |
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 | Kara-Kul crater lake Tajikistan. The crater is 52 km in diameter and is estimated to be less than 5 million years old. | | 10/21/2005 | 450 |
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 | Aorounga impact crater, Chad, Africa. It is 12.6 km in diameter and is estimated to be less than 345 million years old. | | 10/21/2005 | 658 |
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 | Roter Kamm meteorite crater Namibia. Over 2.5 km in diameter and 130 meters, the age is estimated to be 3.7 million years. | | 10/19/2005 | 1,770 |
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 | The crater is 20 km in diameter and 100 m deep. Ngurdoto Crater is surrounded by forest whilst the crater floor is a swamp. | | 10/17/2005 | 847 |
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 | Acraman crater South Australia , is an impact crater that is believed to have formed 590 million years ago during the Ediacaran period. | | 10/04/2005 | 719 |
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 | Boxhole crater, Northern Territory, Australia. 170 meters in diameter its estimated to be 54,000 years old, placing it near the end of the Pleistocene. | | 10/04/2005 | 394 |
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 | Shoemaker crater is a meteor crater in Western Australia. Originally called Teague crater, it was renamed after the late planetary scientist Eugene Shoemaker. | | 10/04/2005 | 534 |
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 | These are the confirmed impact structures on the continent of South America.
Instructions:
- Doubleclick on a folder to see an overview of the structure.
- Click on the placemark to see the description of the structure.
- Doubleclick on the 'size indicator' to see the estimated size of the structure. | | 09/28/2005 | 950 |
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 | These are the confirmed impact structures on the continent of North America.
Instructions:
- Doubleclick on a folder to see an overview of the structure.
- Click on the placemark to see the description of the structure.
- Doubleclick on the 'size indicator' to see the estimated size of the structure. | | 09/28/2005 | 1,323 |
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 | These are the confirmed impact structures on the continent of Europe.
Instructions:
- Doubleclick on a folder to see an overview of the structure.
- Click on the placemark to see the description of the structure.
- Doubleclick on the 'size indicator' to see the estimated size of the structure. | | 09/28/2005 | 1,284 |
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