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Wanted: one organist for concert in remote Bolivian jungle accessible only by raft. Must be prepared to face rapids, alligators and 30C (86F) temperatures. Ability to swim a bonus. Church organists are rarely an essential part of expeditions into the Amazonian rainforest, but a team of scientist...

Kaalijarv crater It`s kind of an unwritten rule in Estonia - if you want to see something weird, go to the islands. Chalk it up to geographic isolation or the celebrated beer brewing traditions of some islanders, but it`s on these outlying patches of land that the nation keeps all the assort...

The Sirente crater field of more than 20 extremely well preserved structures was discovered during the late 1990s and was originally though to be due to a very recent meteoritic impact (about 1500 years ago). However, further investigations now points to it being a water reservoir for human past...

35 km east of Doğubayazıt, Turkey, 4 km west of the Iranian border, is a large crater was supposedly formed due to a meteor fall in 1892. The crater has a width of 55 m, and depth of 60 m. Latitude 39.420656° Longitude 44.401764° [url=http://www.peakbagging.com/Tur...

A theory suggests a giant meteorite falling on Earth 65 million years ago and killing all dinosaurs. Russian scientists have found traces of this meteorite. During a marine expedition, organized by the Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics (Russian Academy of Sciences) and aimed at ocean st...

The 1.07 million year old impact structure in Ghana has a nearly circular shape with a rim diameter of 11 km north-south and 10 km east-west. It is surrounded by a circular depression and an outer ridge of diameter 20 km. Polymict breccias averaging at least 20 m thick with clasts as much as 5 m long occur...

Plans to build a new international airport on the site of the Tswaing crater outside Tshwane have hit a hitch. The airport, which is to be named in honour of the late Brenda Fassie, was proposed ten months ago. It has been enthusiastically promoted as an alternative to the air traffic congestion a...

The Henbury crater field was recognised in 1931, and estimated to be 4200 ±1900 years. 13 craters are known which form a classic distribution ellipse. The largest crater, probably produced by the impact of a fragme...

A possible 14-km diameter crater in Nicaragua. The town of Las Praderas lies in the centre. 13°22'0.03"N 85°57'28.82"W

Peru's Andina News Agency reported today that Puno's Regional Health Directorate sent a group of specialists to the Carancas community in the province of Chucuito near Bolivia to take samples of a meteorite that supposedly landed in the area. Jorge López Tejada, a representative for the institut...

An Oglethorpe County couple got a little more than they bargained for when they bought a 53-acre tract to add to their Oglethorpe County farm. Ted and Patsy Hughes knew beforehand about the slightly mysterious formal garden, with its granite arrows laid out in compass directions. They didn't know a...

People living in southern Germany during Roman times may have witnessed a comet impact 5,000 times more destructive than the Hiroshima atom bomb. A strewnfield of craters around Lake Chiemsee, in south-east Bavaria, may have been caused by fragments of a huge comet that broke up in the...

Northern Arizona's Meteor Crater, also known as the Barringer Meteorite Crater, is a 174 metres deep, 1250 metre-wide hole in the ground that was created by nickel-iron meteorite crashing into Earth almost 50,000 years ago. Scientists at the University of Arizona recently announced t...

The Neugrund meteor crater in Estonia is a 8 km diameter submarine impact crater formed about 475 million years ago in the Ordovician period. The impact crater formed in a shallow epicontinental sea as the result of the impact of an extraterrestrial body with a diameter of about 400 m. The locati...

Professor Dr. Elias Salameh / University of Jordan has announced the discovery of a huge impact site in East Jordan near Jabal Waqf es Suwwan. The discovery was made by Professor Dr. Elias Salameh, Professor Dr. Werner Schneider, and Professor Dr. Hani Khoury. The diameter of the outer ring of the...

The Odessa crater was formed by a spectacular collision with our planet of an iron meteorite 63,500 years ago. The Odessa meteorite, named after the town ten miles southwest in western Texas not far from the southeastern corner of New Mexico carved out five clustered craters, four small ones an...

This is perhaps the site of a devastating meteor impact in the Middle East. The catastrophic effect from which could explain the mystery of why so many early cultures went into sudden decline around 2300 BC. Today's crater lies on what would have been shallow sea 4,000 years ago, and any impact wo...

A large impact crater has been found in the Mantokoski river in Utsjoki, northern Finland, approximately one kilometre from the closest settled area. It is estimated that the impact occurred before Christmas. The crater has an estimated diameter of 300 meters. Samples are being sent to the Un...

A spectacular megabreccia (a coarse rock assemblage composed of large angular-to-rounded fragments, some over 6m in length, held together by a mineral cement in this particular case by melted rock in the form of fine crystalline glassy material) in the Kraaipan granite-greenstone terrane, loc...

Jeptha Knob (elevation 362 m) is the highest point in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky. The Kentucky historical marker at its base calls it a "cryptovolcanic structure", but it is now believed to be the result of an asteroid impact some 425 million years ago. [url=http://en.wikipedia....

In 1942, mappers doing reconnaissance work first noticed an anomalous geologic structure in western Wisconsin. Now geologists have determined that the feature is a 430- to 445-million-year-old meteorite impact structure. [url=http://www.geotimes.org/mar04/NN_Wisccrater.html]Read m...

Within Texas, credible proposals have been made for the extraterrestrial impact origin of five geological structures. Convincing cases have been made for three of these structures, i.e. Marquez structure (Leon County), Odessa crater (Ector County), and Sierra Madera (Pecos County), of being...

The Well water of the tiny Canadian town of Gypsumville, Manitoba (population 65) has been poisoned by an extraterrestrial. The invader: A meteorite which struck down almost a quarter-billion years ago, creating the 40-ki...

Upheaval Dome is an impact crater in Canyonlands National Park, near the town Moab (Utah, United States). It is 10 km in diameter and the crater is estimated to be less than 170 million years old (Jurassic or younger). The crater is clearly visible on the surface as bright brown and black coloured conc...

The Landsat 7 satellite captured this image of Nicholson Crater, in Canadas Northwest Territories on July 6, 2000. The white and light blue areas show ice formation on the lake. The 12.5-kilometer-wide crater was formed 400 million years ago (Devonian or earlier) when a meteor impacted the Earth....

Serra da Cangalha is a meteorite crater (astrobleme) in the State of Tocantins, near to the border of Maranhão State, in northeastern Brazil. The Serra da Cangalha impactor landed 220 million years ago into largely undisturbed sediments laid down some 300 million years ago. [url=http://earthob...

Title: Shatter cone and microscopic shock-alteration evidence for a post-Paleoproterozoic terrestrial impact structure near Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Authors: Siobhan P. Fackelmana, Jared R. Morrowb, Read more [url=http://...

Scientists have discovered a 31 kilometre diameter crater in the Saharan desert the newfound crater was created by an impact of an asteroid roughly 1.2 kilometres wide. As yet the exact date of when it occurred has not been determined. The crater was discovered in satellite images by Boston Uni...

Researchers have found evidence from an Ice Core of a Large Impact that occurred circa 1443 S.D. Dallas Abbott of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) and her colleagues analysed melt water from nine samples taken from the West Antarctic Siple Dome ice core that date between 1440 and 14...

A large fragment has been found of an asteroid that punched a 160km-wide hole in the Earth's surface. The beachball-sized fossil meteorite was drilled out of South Africa's 145-million-year-old (± 0.8) Morokweng crater. It is a unique discovery because large objects are widely be...

Lonar's declining salinity is a cause for worry LONAR lake, India; Buldhana district's unique geological feature, has fascinated scientists for decades. The formation of the saline lake has been widely attributed to a meteor impact. But recent studies of the water by scient...

A new Canadian crater Position: Latitude 76.628177° Longitude -109.037557°

Uzbek geologists have found a large meteorite crater located in the unpopulated Ust-Yurt deserted plateau, located in the north-western part of Uzbekistan. State Committee for Geology and Mineral Resources of Uzbekistan said the collision was so powerful it created an 7 km wide by 10 km long...

Silverpit structure What is thought to be the UK's only space impact crater has been mapped in detail in 3D for the first time. The so-called Silverpit structure lies several hundred metres under the floor of the North Sea, about 130km east of the Yorkshire coast. The new pictures show a spectacular s...

Indian geologists claim to have discovered a possible Impact Crater in Kutch district of Gujarat dating back to the Vedic period. The crater, suspected to have been formed by the impact of an extra-terrestrial object, is seen as a circular feature near Luna village in the northwestern Banni Plai...

Meteor crater found in Dukhan: A crater, believed to have been created by the impact of a falling meteor, found near Dukhan. Read more

Mjølnir Crater is a recently discovered ringed structure about 24 miles wide on the floor of the Barents Sea. It is the result of the impact, roughly 142.0 ± 2.6 million years ago (Lower Cretaceous), of a 1 -3 Km wide asteroid-like body. N 73° 48' E 29° 40' [img]http://static.f...

Central ring structure identified in one of the world's best-preserved impact craters Authors: A.C. Gebhardt and F. Niessen ABSTRACT Seismic refraction and reflection data were acquired in 2000 and 2003 to study the morphology and sedimentary fill of the remote El'...

The Shiva crater is a hypothesised impact crater located in the Indian Ocean west of India. It has been suggested that it formed around 65 million years ago, the same time as a number of other impacts that are recorded in the K-T boundary. The Deccan Traps are located in the theorised centre o...

An international scientific-mountaineering team discovered in 2004 what appears to be one of the world’s largest meteoroid impact craters. Prof Van der Hoeven first realised that there may have been a giant asteroid strike in the Antarctic while on an expedition across the continent in 1960 wh...

Oil exploration work in California's Central Valley region has uncovered a possible space impact crater. The 5.5km-wide bowl is buried under shale sediments west of Stockton, in San Joaquin County, and is thought to be between 37 and 49 million years old. Researchers are continuing to analys...

Startling new evidence from boreholes drilled into the 120-mile-wide Chicxulub crater in Mexico indicate that the great impact, happened 300,000 years too early to have been the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. T...

Two geologists from Washington travelled to north-central Montana last week after an accidental discovery of what they believe is a new meteorite impact crater, located just southeast of Thornhill Butte. The Havre Daily caught up with the two St. Martin University students at Havres Fifth Stree...

View in high resolution - (842kb, 1440 x 1080) Credit USGS Shoemaker (formerly known as Teague Ring) is an impact structure (or astrobleme), the deeply eroded remnant of a former impact crater, situated in arid central Western Australia, about 100 km north-northeast of Wiluna. It is named in honou...

The Morasko meteorite nature reserve is located in Morasko, on the northern edge of the city of Pozna, Poland. It is a cluster of 8 crater lakes the largest being 100 metres across, on the slope of Mount Morasko (Góra Moraska). [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morasko_meteorite_nature_rese...

This image of the Lake Janisjarvi Impact Crater was captured by the Landsat-7 satellite on September 5, 1999 . Lake Jänisjärvi is a 13 by 17 kilometres oval-shaped lake, in northwestern Russia, near the Finnish border. The crater was formed roughly 700 million years ago by a meteorite impact. Credi...

Expand (167kb, 800 x 600) Unknown Crater 4.kmz Latitude: 22°52'34.40"S, Longitude: 119°40'31.10"E

Images of "Victoria Crater" in Mars' Meridiani Planum region, taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, provided detailed, three-dimensional information that was used to create this animation of a hypothetica...

Geologist Arthur Hickman has had a crater named after him. He discovered the meteorite crater, now named Hickman Crater, near to the town of Newman in the Hamersley Ranges, Western Australia, while he was using Google earth. Dr Hickman notified his colleague Dr Andrew Glickson at the Australian Na...

About 14.7 million years ago, in the Miocene, a impact crater was caused by a meteorite at a place what is now known as Nordlingen Ries, Germany and at Steinheimer, Germany. The depression has a circular shape and is 25 km in diameter. The bottom of the crater is about 100-150 m below the brink. The city o...

As the fragments of shattered comet 73P/Schwassmann Wachmann 3 glide harmlessly past Earth this month in full view of backyard telescopes, onlookers can't h...

Thunder Sword Resources Inc. is pleased to report that early analyses of the Megatem airborne data suggests that the Kercher Lake Block of claims provides interesting features. "This area displays some oddly interesting features. The digital terrain elevation values derived from the G...

This image, taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft, shows crater Lomonosov on the Moon’s far side. Credits: ESA/Space-X AM...

A possible impact crater site is the feature known as St. Magnus Bay in the Shetland Islands. A massive impact seems to be the cause for the peculiar shape of the bay. The statistics of impact structures indicate that Britain should have still to be found impact structures up to tens of kilometres...

In the early 1950s, workers for the U.S. Navy drilled test wells in an area of the North Slope known as the Naval Petroleum Reserve. The drillers sent core samples of rock to Fairbanks, where Florence Weber and Florence Collins, both geologists with the U.S. Geological Survey, noticed something odd...

The Kara-Kul impact crater is partly filled by the 25-km diameter Kara-Kul Lake. It is almost 6000 meters above sea-level in the Pamir Mountain Range in Tajikstan, near the Afghan border . Shock features have been found in surface rocks, verifying an impact identity. The crater is 52 km in dia...

On the 17 May 1990 at 23:20 local time , a 1000 - 1500kg meteorite, on a 45° angle of approach, impacted the ground forming a crater 20km west of Sterlitamak in Bashkiria. The crater is 15m of diameter and 4.5 to 5m deep. Unfortunately, image precision is not enough to see such a crater. The meteorite...

Location of as yet unreported impact crater Latitude 21°21'26.26"N Longitude 20°45'12.24"E

What may be the single largest impact crater on the planet, if not the entire solar system, has been discovered in Australia. The crater measures an incredible 1400+ miles in diameter. The crater, first discovered by amateur geologist Gene Harvey, was ironically found while watching the local new...

Judge crater candidate in Long Island Sound, Expand (38kb, 802 x 529) Position 41.17N, 72.405W Size 1 km

Quetzalcoatl crater candidate in the Caribbean. Expand (31kb, 802 x 529) Position: Latitude: 22.04070 N, Longitude: 96.32417W Size 10 km

Grendel crater candidate in the North Sea. Expand (43kb, 802 x 529) Position: 58.16 N, 5.86E, 18 km diameter

Russian scientists to establish origin of Great Flood Russian researchers from the University of Siberia are planning on proving the theory of Bruce Masse, an environmental archaeologist with Los Alamos National Laboratory, who claims that the Great Flood of 2800 BCE came as a result o...

The ~7-km-wide Slate Islands group represents the heavily eroded central peak of a ~32 km diameter (from bathymetric data) complex impact crater. The 436 million year old Slate Islands meteorite crater is located in northern Lake Superior ~10 km south of Terrace Bay and ~150 km east of Thunder Bay,...

Title: The Tsenkher structure in the Gobi-Altai, Mongolia: Geomorphological hints of an impact origin Authors: Goro Komatsua, John W. Olsenb, Jens Ormöc, Gaetano Di Achillea, David A. Kringd and Takafumi Matsuie The Tsenkher structure, in the Gobi-Altai region of Mongolia, was studied using a...

An asteroid impacted in Ohio, US about 300 million years ago. There is an approximately 6.4 kilometre diameter astrobleme just slightly to the northeast of the Serpent Mound*, near where the three counties, Adams, Pike and Highland come together. The present elevation of the central...

Title: A Precambrian proximal ejecta blanket from Scotland Authors: Kenneth Amor, Stephen P. Hesselbo, Don Porcelli, Scott Thackrey, and John Parnell Ejecta blankets around impact craters are rarely preserved on Earth. Although impact craters are ubiquitous on solid bodies throughout the so...

Tabun-Khara-Obo is a meteorite crater in the Dornogovi Aimag (province) the south-east of Mongolia. The crater, which is exposed at the surface, is 1.3 km in diameter and has an estimated age of 150 ± 20 million years (Upper Jurassic). [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabun-Khara-Obo_crat...

About 1.8 billion years ago, a meteorite or comet the size of Mount Everest slammed into what is now Canada. According to James Mungall, a University of Toronto geologist, the impact turned part of the Earth's crust inside out and dusted the surface with a rare metal. Mungall and other experts...

The Boltysh Crater is an impact crater in the Kirovohrad Oblast province of Ukraine. The crater is 24 km in diameter and its age of 65.17 ± 0.64 million years, based on argon dating techniques, is within error of that of Chicxulub Crater in Mexico, and the KT boundary. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/...

New analysis of Mars' terrain using NASA spacecraft observations reveals what appears to be by far the largest impact crater ever found in the solar system. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Global Surveyor have provided detailed information about the elevations and gravity of the Red...

Crater Tycho is a very young impact crater, only 110 million years old; much younger than the Sydney sandstone we walk around on. It has very steep and tormented slopes (sic) as Virtual Moon describes it; tormented indeed! The sketch was made in 2006 when seeing showed more detail than I could possibl...

Seventy-four million years ago, near the end of the Cretaceous Period, central Iowa lay near the shoreline of an inland seaway that separated eastern North America from rapidly rising mountains to the west. The low-lying Iowa landscape was home to a rich and varied population of plants and animal...

Acraman crater is a deeply eroded impact crater in the Gawler Ranges of South Australia. Its location is marked by Lake Acraman, a circular ephemeral playa lake about 20 km in diameter. The impact event is estimated to have occurred about 580 million years ago during the Ediacaran Period. [url=http...

A huge meteorite crater has been discovered ten kilometres from an old opal mining town in the far west of New South Wales. Its an extraordinary find for the opal fields have been mined since eighteen ninety. Miners, pastoralists, tourists, and whoever has flown to the nearby airfield, have missed t...

A suspected impact crater, measuring 50 metres in depth and 100 metres wide, has been located by Greek oceanographers off the coast of the island of Evia in the Aegean Sea. The crater was dated as forming during the iceage when the sea level was 150 metres lower than present day. The exact location o...

Expand (2.7mb, JPEG) Australias Aboriginal people had long known about the crater near Wolfe Creek by the time an aerial survey identified it in 1947. Almost circular, Wolfe Creek Crater (also known as Wolf Creek Crater) is considered the second largest crater in the world from which meteorite fra...

What local hunters in Whitecourt thought for years was a sinkhole is actually the crater left behind by a meteor that fell to earth 1,000 years ago and is now attracting international attention from researchers. The crater is 36 metres wide and six metres deep, which is small as far as most craters go...

Chinese researchers have discovered an impact structure in Xiuyan County (Manchu Autonomous, Liaoning, China. The crater has a diameter of 1,800 metres, and is 150 metres deep. It is believed to have been formed 50,000 years ago. According to Chen Ming, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, thi...

Title: Low-angle collision with Earth: The elliptical impact crater Matt Wilson, Northern Territory, Australia Authors: Thomas Kenkmann, and Michael H. Poelchau Nearly all meteorite impact craters on Earth are circular. However, ~4% of craters should be formed by impacts at angles lower than...

The Dhala structure is a newly discovered impact structure in central India, that had an estimated diameter of 15 km. Proterozoic age impact occurred in the western fringe of Bundelkhand craton, Shivpuri district, Madhya Pradesh, India. The impact structure has unequivocal evidences of diag...

Title: The Ritland crater - An early Cambrian impact structure in West Norway Authors: Fridtjof Riis, Henning Dypvik, Svein Olav Krøgli The Ritland crater is a 2 km wide and 350 m deep circular depression in the sub-Cambrian peneplain. It is located in the community of Hjelmeland, county of Rogalan...

Title: SEDIMENTARY INFILL OF THE GARDNOS IMPACT CRATER – A FIELD REPORT Authors: E.Kalleson, H.Dypvik, J.Naterstad. The Gardnos impact structure in Hallingdal is one of only two (at present) confirmed impact craters in Norway, the other being the Mjølnir crater in the Bar...

A huge impact crater was found nearly 200 feet below the surface of Lake Huron by geologists, along with a 58-pound chunk of carbonaceous meteorite and meteoric rock found at the same depth by crews drilling a pipeline. [url=http://riverjournal.com/vivvo/other_worlds/460.html]Read more[/u...

Granby is an impact crater in Sweden. It is estimated to have formed about 470 million years ago (Middle Ordovician). The crater is 3 km in diameter and is not exposed at the surface. Source Latitude: 58°25'N, Longitude: 14°56'E

Uncovered in Patagonia an enormous "field of craters" of unknown origin. The piu' crater field, the largest in the southern hemisphere (and, probably, of the world) was uncovered in Patagonia, in southern Argentine, in an area of 90 square kilometres called the 'Bajada del Diablo', t...

Several impact structures have been recently discovered in pre-Tertiary Peninsular Malaysia. In the Langkawi islands three of four arcuate ridges are associated with cleaved quartz that crops out as a sill and dyke complex. Other shock-metamorphic features include ribbon quartz and mosaicis...

Roter Kamm is a meteorite crater, located within the Namibian section of the Namib Desert. It is 2.5 km in diameter and is 130 meters (400 feet) deep. The age is estimated to be 3.7 ± 0.3 million years placing it in the Pliocene. Read more [url...

Mapping Impact Modified Sediments: Subtle Remote-Sensing Signatures of the Dakhleh Oasis Catastrophic Event, Western Desert, Egypt A.F.C. Haldemann (JPL, Caltech), M.R. Kleindienst (U. Toronto at Mississauga), C.S. Churcher (U. Toronto), J.R. Smith (Washington University i...

Ouarkziz impact structure Algeria Diameter: 3.5 km Age: 70.00 million years Expand (77kb, 800 x 600) Latitude 29° 0'42.29"N, Longitude 7°33'5.99"W Ouarkziz is a meteorite impact crater in Al...

Giordano Bruno is one of the youngest large craters (22 km diameter) on the Moon. How old is "youngest"? Written accounts of twelfth century observations of a bright flash on the Moon may record the event that formed Giordano Bruno crater? That idea was proposed after the first high resol...

One hundred kilometers south west of Johannesburg, South Africa are the towns of Vredefort and Parys, the latter lying next to the Vaal river. The towns are a short deviation from the N1 highway to Cape Town. In an arc to the north and west of the towns is a partial ring of hills, some 70 kilometres in diam...

An aboriginal dreaming story about a star crashing to Earth with a noise like thunder has led to the discovery of an ancient meteorite crater in central Australia. A Sydney astronomer, Duane Hamacher, found the bowl-shaped crater in Palm Valley, about 130 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs, b...

The Wetumpka impact crater is the only confirmed meteorite crater in Alabama, United States. It is located east of downtown Wetumpka in Elmore County, Alabama. The crater is 7.6 km in diameter and its age is estimated to be about 83 million years (Cretaceous) old based on fossils found in the younges...

Title: Geoelectric evidence for centripetal resurge of impact melt and breccias over central uplift of Araguainha impact structure Authors: C.H. Tong et al., Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Birkbeck, Univ. of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, UK. Tong et al. present new geophysical...

Title: Jupiter - friend or foe? I: the asteroids Authors: J. Horner, B. W. Jones (The Open University, UK) The asteroids are the major source of potential impactors on the Earth today. It has long been assumed that the giant planet Jupiter acts as a shield, significantly lowering the impact rate on th...

Amguid is a meteorite crater in Algeria. It is 450 m in diameter and the age is estimated to be less than 100,000 years and is probably Pleistocene. Read more

Darvaz Crater in Uzbekistan is called by locals "The Door to Hell". It is situated near the small town of Darvaz. The 50-100 meter diameter crater was created by an accidental explosion and ground collapse as a result of natural gas exploratory drilling in 1986. The ignited natural gas h...

Chiyli is a 5.5 km diameter impact crater in Kazakhstan. It is and the age is estimated to be 46 ± 7 million years (Eocene). The crater is exposed at the surface. Source Latitude: 49°10'30"N, Longitude: 57°50'6"E

Drilling update - Manicouagan meteorite impact site - Five bore holes completed to date, further drilling on-going. - Disseminated sulphide mineralization (minor copper) was encountered in two holes, along with key Sudbury-type geological units in the additional holes, r...

Title: Geochemical evidence for an impact origin for a Late Archean spherule layer, Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa Authors: Bruce M. Simonson, Christian Koeberl, Iain McDonald, Wolf Uwe Reimold ABSTRACT A Late Archean layer rich in sand-sized spherules o...

Pieces of a giant asteroid or comet that broke apart over Earth may have crashed off Australia about 1,500 years ago, says a scientist who has found evidence of the possible impact craters. Satellite measurements of the Gulf of Carpentaria revealed tiny changes in sea level that are signs of impact c...

Geologists appear to have stumbled upon a meteorite-hit site in western Rajasthan after they discovered quartz-like mineral that is similar to the one found near the famous Lonar crater lake in Maharashtra. [url=http://www.ptinews.com/news/504762_Geologists-stumble-upon-meteorite-h...

The Wabar craters are impact craters brought to the attention of Western scholars by an explorer searching for the legendary city of Ubar in Arabia. The Wabar site covers about 500 by 1,000 meters, and the most recent mapping shows three prominent, roughly circular craters. Five were reported by Ph...

Mount Toondina crater is an impact structure (or astrobleme), the eroded remnant of a former impact crater, situated in northern South Australia 45 km south of the township of Oodnadatta. Read more Expand (108kb, 800 x 600) L...

General list of impact structures for google earth. Read more (55kb, kmz)

Middlesboro is a meteorite crater in Kentucky, United States. It is named after the city of Middlesborough (also spelled Middlesboro), which today occupies much of the crater. It is approximately about 6 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be less than 300 million years (Permian). The crate...

About 200 million years ago, a large meteorite came hurtling through the darkness of outer space heading for a direct impact with planet Earth at the confluence of what would later become known as Houston, Stewart and Montgomery Counties in the state of Tennessee. The meteorite was nearly 300 metre...

Unusual feature lies under Ames It packed so much energy that surface temperatures even 100 miles away rose 500 degrees in an instant. Here at ground zero, what remained was a crater eight miles across and a half-mile deep. But no one had a clue about the event until one day in 1991. That's when Rex Olson...

Siljan, in Dalarna in central Sweden, is Sweden's sixth largest lake. The cumulative area of Siljan and the adjacent, smaller lakes Orsasjön and Insjön is 354 km². Siljan reaches a maximum depth of 120 m, and its surface is situated 161 metres above sea level. The largest city bordered by its shore is...

Des Plaines is an impact crater in Illinois, United States. It is located in the city of Des Plaines, which is a suburb of Chicago. It is 8 kilometres in diameter and the age is estimated to be less than 280 million years (Permian or younger). [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des_Plaines_crater...

The 23 kilometres in diameter Haughton impact crater is located on Devon Island, Nunavut in far northern Canada. It formed about 39 million years ago (late Eocene). The impacting object is estimated to have been approximately two kilometres in diameter. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha...

Australian scientists have discovered a crater deep beneath the Timor Sea made during a heavy meteor storm which may have altered the Earth's climate, the lead researcher said Thursday. Australian National University archaeologist Andrew Glikson said seismic activity led experts to the Mount...

Goat Paddock is a 5 km-diameter near-circular bowl-shaped depression in a range of gently dipping Proterozoic sandstone in the Kimberley Region of northern Western Australia, 106 km west-southwest of Halls Creek. Read more...

It was January of 2004 when the elegant curve of the Vichada River first caught the attention of geologist Max Rocca of Buenos Aires. Rocca at the time was searching for traces of ancient asteroid impacts in South America, a task made exceptionally challenging by the jungle growth that covers much of...

The Popigai crater in Siberia, Russia is tied with Manicouagan Reservoir as the 4th largest verified impact crater on Earth. A large bolide impact created the 100-kilometer diameter crater 35.7 ± 0.2 million years ago during the late Eocene (Priabonian stage). The crater is just north of the Sibe...

Title: Once Again About Kainozoic Meteorite Structures in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Authors: L. P. Hrjanina, Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, b. Grusinskaja, 10, 123810, Moscow, Russia. Two Kainozoic meteorite structures were discovered during the study of coa...

New research on a few of the more than 1,300 enigmatic craters found deep in Egypt's western desert has scientists scratching their heads. The craters look like they were created by a spectacular ancient rain of meteors, or perhaps from a vast eruption of steam and gas from inside the Earth. Or mayb...

Hunting Arctic Asteroid Impact With Hovercraft Two polar scientists hot on the trail of an arctic mystery have a new tool for exploration: a hovercraft, specially outfitted for week-long trips over the ice with scientific instruments and solar panels. Their quarry is a nearly 22,000 square-mile...

Pilot crater is an impact crater in the Northwest Territories, Canada, just north of the Alberta border and near Fort Smith. It is 6 kilometres in diameter and the age is estimated to be 445 ± 2 million years (Upper Ordovician). Read more L...

Kalkkop is an impact crater which can be found on a private farm 50 kilometres south east of the town of Aberdeen, Eastern Cape, in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The name is derived from two Afrikaans words, namely "kalk" meaning limestone and "kop" meaning head. [...

Expand (72kb, 800 x 600) Latitude: 18° 2'48.16"N, Longitude: 33°29'57.65"E

Yarrabubba crater is a 30-70 km diameter eroded impact structure situated in the northern Yilgarn Craton between the towns of Sandstone and Meekatharra, central Western Australia. The age of the impact event is uncertain, but the crater is younger than the granite that it shocked, and which has...

A University of Queensland (UQ) researcher has found evidence of a major asteroid impact that occurred near the Queensland-South Australia border more than 300 million years ago. The asteroid, which produced a shock zone at least 80km wide, could be the second-largest asteroid ever found in Aust...

Monturaqui is a meteorite crater in Chile. It is located south of the Salar de Atacama, in the Antofagasta Region. Read more Latitude: 23°55'41"S, Longitude: 68°15'42"W This 1,509ft in diameter crater is one of the be...

Huge Impact Crater Found in Remote Congo A circular depression deep in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been confirmed as the first known impact crater in central Africa, a new study says. The find brings the number of known meteor craters on Earth to 182. The so-called Luizi structure w...

DR Congo ring may be giant 'impact crater' Deforestation has revealed what could be a giant impact crater in Central Africa, scientists say. The 36-46km-wide feature, identified in DR Congo, may be one of the largest such structures discovered in the last decade. Italian researchers considered o...

Rochechouart is an impact crater in France. The crater diameter is still under study but expected to be about 21 km and its current age estimate is given as 214 ± 8 million years, placing it in the Upper Triassic period. Since then the crater has been deeply eroded, and no trace of its original surface mo...

Bigach is an impact crater in Kazakhstan. It is 8 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be 5 ± 3 million years (Pliocene or Miocene). The crater is exposed at the surface. Read more Latitude: 48°36'00"N, Longitude: 82°0'00&qu...

Suspected group of at least 7 impact craters in Quillagua, Chile. Quillagua crater Quillagua is in Guinness World Records as the "driest place" for 37 years, yet it prospered off the Loa River, reaching a population of 800 by the...

Latitude: 25°19'56.02"N, Longitude: 76°37'27.25"E

Acadia University researchers are studying a meteorite crater south of Bridgetown, with the possibility of proving other meteors came down here thousands, if not millions, of years ago. The group led by Ian Spooner, an environmental geo-scientist in the earth and environmental science departm...

Gosses Bluff (Gosse's Bluff) is an impact crater in Northern Territory, Australia. Today the crater measures 5 km in diameter and is 150 m high. It is located 175 km west of Alice Springs at 23°49 S 132°19 E. The crater was created by a meteorite impact approximately 142.5 ± 0.8 million years ago in the U...

New Buried Asteroid Impact Crater Discovered in Canada An extraterrestrial impact crater is hiding near a Canadian ghost town. Nearly 5 miles across and 3,000 feet deep, the stealth crater has lurked just west of Bow City, Alberta, for millions of years. Since the 1930s, some had suspected a bit of o...

Title: Hong Kong is an impact crater: Proof from the geomorphological and geological evidence Authors: Chan, Chu-Lok; Wu, Siben; Luo, Xiuquan Hong Kong is a city in southern China. The urban districts of Hong Kong, Kowloon, and Victoria Harbour are situated within Hong Kong. Hong Kong is surround...

South Australia asteroid strike you missed - by 300m years Evidence of a massive asteroid strike about 300 million years ago - the third-biggest ever found on Earth - has been discovered in South Australia. Research from the Australian National University says the East Warburton Basin in northeas...