Task 8: Asteroid Impacts

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Vredefort Crater

Asteroid impact date: Estimated 2 billion years ago

Location: Free State, South Africa

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Sudbury Basin

Asteroid impact date: Estimated 1.8 billion years ago

Location: Ontario, Canada

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Acraman Crater

Asteroid impact date: Estimated 580 million years ago

Location: South Australia, Australia

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Woodleigh Crater

Asteroid impact date: Estimated 364 million years ago

Location: Western Australia, Australia

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Manicouagan Crater

Asteroid impact date: Estimated 215 million years ago

Location: Quebec, Canada

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Morokweng Crater

Asteroid impact date: Estimated 145 million years ago

Location: North West, South Africa

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Kara Crater

Asteroid impact date: Estimated 70.3 million years ago

Location: Nenetsia, Russia

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Chicxulub Crater

Asteroid impact date: Estimated 65 million years ago

Location: Yucatán, Mexico

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Popigai Crater

Asteroid impact date: Estimated 35.7 million years ago

Location: Siberia, Russia

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Chesapeake Bay Crater

Asteroid impact date: Estimated 35 million years ago

Location: Virginia, United States

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estimated radius of 118 miles (190 kilometers), making it the world's largest known impact structure.

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Dating back 1.8 billion years, it is also one of the oldest known impact structures in the world.

Located in what is now Lake Acraman

This crater is not exposed at the surface and has led to many discrepancies regarding its actual size.

This impact crater formed what is now Lake Manicouagan. Even with erosion, it's considered one of the largest and best-preserved craters on Earth

Located near the Kalahari Desert in South Africa, this crater contained the fossilized remains of the meteorite that created it.

Some have claimed that the impact structure actually consists of two adjacent craters: the Kara and the Ust-Kara crater.

Many scientists believe that the meteorite that left this crater caused or contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Russian scientists claim that this crater site contains trillions of carats of diamonds, making it one of the largest diamond deposits in the world.

Discovered in the early 1980s, the Chesapeake Bay Crater is located approximately 125 miles (201 kilometers) from Washington, D.C.