When it comes to impact craters, Earth is the pauper of the solar system. Even with a recent, still-to-be-confirmed crater discovery under Greenland’s ice, there are fewer than 200 known impact
Burckle crater. / -30.865; 61.365. The Burckle crater is an undersea topographic feature about 29 kilometres (18 mi; 16 nmi) in diameter [1] in the southwestern Indian Ocean. A team of Earth scientists called the Holocene Impact Working Group proposes the feature to be an impact crater; these claims are disputed by other geologists.
June 30, 2016 6:00 AM EDT. O n June 30th, 1908, an asteroid entered the Earth’s atmosphere above Tunguska, Siberia and exploded with the energy of about 185 Hiroshima-level atomic bombs. In
The authors present the more than 200 terrestrial impact sites in high-resolution topographic maps and satellite images, complete with detailed geological descriptions and photographs of the
Area. 30,000 ha (120 sq mi) The Vredefort impact structure is one of the largest verified impact structures on Earth. [1] The crater, which has since been eroded away, has been estimated at 170–300 kilometres (110–190 mi) across when it was formed. [2] [3] The remaining structure, comprising the deformed underlying bedrock, is located in
The size of the excavated crater depends primarily on the speed of impact, but generally it is 10 to 15 times the diameter of the projectile. Figure 6.8.2 6.8. 2 Stages in the Formation of an Impact Crater. (a) The impact occurs. (b) The projectile vaporizes and a shock wave spreads through the lunar rock. The following year, MacGregor et al. (2019) report the discovery of a possible second subglacial impact crater around 36.5-km wide and 183 km southeast of the Hiawatha impact crater. Based on satellite and aerogeophysical data, they suggest the identified structure is likely an impact crater, although this is not yet confirmed by direct
a Density map of craters
These impact craters have been produced on the Earth and Moon over their 4.5 to 4.6 billion year history. Studies of the impact cratering histories of the Earth-Moon system and observations of asteroids and comets in our solar system indicate that impact events continue to occur on both the Earth and Moon and that they occurred more frequently earlier in Earth's history. o8TAYx1.
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