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26000 Meteorite Impacts from Around the World - Related Files

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	Bjurbole meteorite fall 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
	Odessa crater 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	1,246
	Barringer Meteorite Crater, Arizona It is one of the best-preserved meteorite craters on Earth.		08/27/2005	1,603
	Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater, Australia 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
	Tagish Lake meteorite 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	588
	meteor all over the world Meteor craters A SELECTION OF OVER 60 METEORCRATERS AND IMPACTS ON EARTH		07/09/2006	2,955
	Oman meteorite crater? Meteorite or volcanic crater in Dhofar desert in Oman		08/15/2009	199
	Roter Kamm meteorite crater Namibia. 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	1,858
	Earth Impact Database CPJ Impacts by extraterrestrial bodies		12/31/2005	1,646
	Reisadalen Impact Northern Norway was hit with an meteorite impact comparable to the atomic bomb on Wednesday, 7th June, 2006. For several seconds, residents of the northern part of Troms and the western areas of Finnmark saw a ball of fire crossing the sky. A few minutes later an impact was heard and geophysics and seismology stations in Karasjok registered a powerful sound and seismic disturbance...		06/12/2006	822
	Peruvian Meteorite inpact site 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
	Graz I (Overlay) Air raid against Graz, Austria, on February 13th 1945. Impacts are visible near Central Station, Rebengasse, Keplerstrasse and Annenstrasse.		08/13/2005	361