Tag: crater formation
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Scientists Confirm 5-Mmile Wide Nadir Crater Beneath Atlantic Ocean Floor
New Discovery: A Giant Crater Hidden Beneath the Atlantic In a striking fusion of ocean science and planetary history, researchers have confirmed a massive 5-mile-wide asteroid crater buried beneath the Atlantic Ocean floor. Measuring roughly 8 kilometers across, the Nadir Crater is the product of a colossal 66-million-year-old impact that reshaped our planet’s late Cretaceous…
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Moon Meteor Impacts Caught on Camera: Astronomer Documents Two Space Rocks Slamming into the Moon
Two Bright Impacts Reaching Earth’s Night Sky In a pair of startling lunar events, two bright meteors slammed into the Moon’s dark surface, flashing for a split second and leaving fresh craters in memory and in the records of observers. The sightings were captured by Japanese astronomer Daichi Fujii, the curator of the Hiratsuka City…