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The Wetumpka impact crater is the only confirmed impact crater in Alabama, United States.It is located east of downtown Wetumpka in Elmore County.The crater is 4.7 miles (7.6 km) in diameter, and its age is estimated to be about 85 million years (late Cretaceous), [1] based on fossils found in the youngest disturbed deposits, which belong to the Mooreville Chalk Formation.
The Middlesboro crater (or astrobleme) is a meteorite crater in Kentucky, United States. [2] It is named after the city of Middlesboro, Kentucky, which today occupies much of the crater. The crater is approximately 3 miles (about 5 km) wide and its age is estimated to be less than 300 million years . The impactor is estimated to have been about ...
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An asteroid that crashed into the Earth’s atmosphere over the UK and France was spotted just hours before it crashed. ... It was the most powerful asteroid strike in more than 100 years, and ...
The asteroid, called 2024 UQ, was first spotted on 22 October by the Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, a telescope network scanning the sky for space rocks likely headed for ...
The Weaubleau structure is a probable meteorite impact site in western Missouri near the towns of Gerster, Iconium, Osceola, and Vista. It is believed to have been caused by a 1,200-foot (370 m) meteoroid between 335 and 340 million years ago [ 1 ] during the middle Mississippian Period (Latest Osagean to Earliest Meramecian ).
Less than ten thousand years old, and with a diameter of 100 m (330 ft) or more. The EID lists fewer than ten such craters, and the largest in the last 100,000 years (100 ka) is the 4.5 km (2.8 mi) Rio Cuarto crater in Argentina. [2]
However, even during the asteroid’s closest pass to date on August 8 at about 352,300 miles (567,000 kilometers), it was nowhere near Earth’s Roche limit, said Carlos de la Fuente Marcos, a ...