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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 | 1,246 | 
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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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 | 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 |
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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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 | 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 | 585 |
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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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 | 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 | 773 |
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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 Mooney Mooney Creek Bridge is one of the most spectacular on any highway in Australia, crossing the creek 75m above water level, spanning 480m from cliff to cliff and taking 3 and a half years to build. It was opened to traffic in October 1983.
[check here for a picture of the bridge: http://www.googleearthhacks.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1504 -admin] | | 08/22/2005 | 670 |
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