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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.
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 | Australia has some of the best examples of meteorite impact sites anywhere in the world and Wolfe Creek Crater, Western Australia, is one of the most spectacular. The floor lies 55 metres below the rim of the crater, and although partly buried by windblown sand, the rim of the crater rises to 25 metres above the surrounding plain.
I thought it was the second largest in the world bu... |  | 08/16/2005 | 1,438 |
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 | It is one of the best-preserved meteorite craters on Earth. | | 08/27/2005 | 1,603 |
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 | Meteorite or volcanic crater in Dhofar desert in Oman |  | 08/15/2009 | 199 |
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 | 10 Km crater formed by meteorite impact 170 million years ago. | | 07/31/2005 | 1,615 |
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 | Meteorite crater said to be made by a shooting star in Hindu mythology.
1800m in diameter and 170m deep - claimed to be the biggest of its kind. | | 07/21/2005 | 1,636 |
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 | This lake is a flooded meteorite crater in Ghana, approximately 8km across. The impact crater is estimated to be 1.3 million years old. The lake is considered to be sacred by the 'Ashanti', where their dead go to farewell their god Twi. |  | 08/03/2005 | 1,111 |
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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 | 742 |
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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 | 770 |
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 | The biggest meteoroid ever found on earth, named "Hoba-Meteorite". It's located near Grootfontein/Namibia and has an 66-ton iron body.
For more infos: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoba_meteorite | | 12/10/2006 | 913 |
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 | The Republic of Namibia is a country in southwestern Africa, on the Atlantic coast. It is bordered by Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east, and South Africa to the south. It gained independence from South Africa in 1990, and as such it is one of the youngest nations in the world. Its capital is Windhoek.
For more look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namibia | | 08/21/2005 | 790 |
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 | I was watching a Documentary on the Himba people in Namibia last night... Decided to try to find one of their villages. | | 11/24/2006 | 1,042 |
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