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First time meteorite crater discovered on mountain top
Chinese scientists have found the world's first mountain-top meteorite crater, measuring 1,400m in diameter, in the country's northeast.
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Carancas mysteries 'emit' strange disease
Hours after a meteorite descended near the remote village of Carancas in Peru in 2007, hundreds of people began to show strange symptoms.
Discover science
Discovered traces of life in the crater 375 million years
The impact crater, 52 km in diameter, caused by asteroids crashing into Earth became a favorable habitat for ancient microorganisms.
Discover science
Drilling deep into craters collided by meteors once destroyed dinosaurs
Previous evidence has been found to show that there was a giant meteorite hitting the Earth, in the area of today's Gulf of Mexico.
Space science
Found a giant meteorite 500 million years ago
Aerial and underground survey results helped US experts determine the existence of an ancient impact crater beneath a town in the state of Iowa (USA).
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Radar detects a meteorite pit under Russian lake
Thanks to radar technology, an asteroid crater has been exposed at the bottom of Lake Chebarkul, after experts attempted to find a meteorite collision point in Russia wi…
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Find meteor craters to kill dinosaurs
Scientists have shown that a large 25km-diameter crater was discovered on Victoria Island (Canadian archipelago) formed by a meteor shower that killed all dinosaurs, acc…
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Find the oldest Earth's crater
An oldest meteorite, formed on Earth about 3 billion years ago, was discovered in the west of Greenland island. It is said to appear after an asteroid collision of 30km…
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The magnetic field on the Moon is produced by the ancient meteorite
A recent scientific study said, the phenomenon