Rich enough, in fact, to provide about 10% of the world’s nickel supply! 2. Chicxulub Crater, Mexico. This is the one that may have done in the dinosaurs, and is one of the largest meteor strikes in Earth’s history. The impact happened roughly 65 million years ago, when an asteroid the size of a small city crashed onto Earth with the The Moon does not. Pretty much any tiny dent made on the Moon’s surface is going to stay there. Three processes help Earth keep its surface crater free. The first is called erosion. Earth has weather, water, and plants. These act together to break apart and wear down the ground.

Chesapeake Bay Crater – Virginia, United States. Coordinates: 37°17’ N 76° 1’ W. Image Credit. Estimated to have been caused by a bolide some 35 million years ago, it is one of the best preserved marine impact craters and the largest impact crater in the US. A bolide is a form of fireball which is usually brighter than an ordinary meteor.

Out of those 19 craters, just two were excavated from youthful volcanic deposits by an impact event 1.1 million years ago: crater 09-00015 and Tooting crater. The latter (named after a district in

The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world. Been Here? 69. best preserved meteorite crater on Earth." Asteroid crater on the Yucatán Peninsula reveals surprising new geologic details. About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into Earth at what is now Chicxulub, on Mexico’s Yucatán W4G8gDq. 342 135 233 335 378 419 116 372 15

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