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Map of the bedrock topography beneath the ice sheet and the ice-free land surrounding the Hiawatha impact crater.

Huge Crater Discovered in Greenland

The 21 shocked and unshocked zircon crystals dated in this study were separated from this ~30 cubic centimeters of unconsolidated late Eocene sediment obtained from Ocean Drilling Project site 1073, hole A. Credit: Biren/ASU

Researchers study largest impact crater in the US, buried for 35...

Mega Meteorite “Largest Space Rock Ever Found in State”

laminar beds of sandstone

Site of biggest ever meteorite collision in the UK discovered

Asteroid impact earth

Site of asteroid impact changed the history of life

An example of a Pallasite meteorite (from the Esquel fall) on display in the Vale Inco Limited Gallery of Minerals at the Royal Ontario Museum.

Meteorite strikes made life on Earth possible

A world map that shows where similary platinum spikes have been discovered in the world. The latest discovery is at the Wonderkrater site in Limpopo Province, South Africa. Credit: Francis Thackeray/Wits University

New research supports hypothesis that asteroid contributed to mass extinction

66 million years ago a meteorite of a diameter 14 km wide struck the Earth with an enormous speed of 20.000 kilometers per hour drilling itself 20 km into the Earth's crust

The formation of large meteorite craters is unraveled

Oldest rock on Earth

Meteorite bombardment likely to have created the Earth’s oldest rocks

Researchers searching for fossils kept finding tiny glassy spheres inside ancient clams. After more than a decade, testing suggests they are evidence of one or more undocumented meteorite impacts in Florida’s distant past. Credit: Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace

Cosmic pearls: Fossil clams in Florida contain evidence of ancient meteorite

Thin section view of meteoritic ejecta deposit si

60 Million Year Old Meteorite Strike in Scotland

Murchison meteorite

Sugar delivered to Earth from space

A blue crystal recovered from a meteorite that fell near Morocco in 1998.

Ingredients for life revealed in meteorites that fell to Earth

Maps of the Siljan impact structure and study locations. a Map of Sweden with the Siljan area indicated. b Geological map of the Siljan impact structure with locations of the cored boreholes and the quarry sampled for mineral coatings indicated, along with the sedimentary units in the crater depression, towns, lakes (white) and roads (black lines). Gas compositions exist from boreholes VM2 and VM5 (located adjacent to VM2). Credit: Nature Communications, 2019

Europe’s largest meteorite crater home to deep ancient life

A model for the compositional evolution of the early Earth's crust due to fractional crystallization of impact melt sheets followed by detachment and sinking of their dense primitive portions towards the crust-mantle boundary. Credit: Rais Latypov

Ancient asteroid impacts played a role in creation of Earth’s future...

The L6 ordinary chondrite El Médano 128, a 556 g meteorite recovered in the Atacama Desert. Photo courtesy CCJ-CNRS, P. Groscaux.

Oldest meteorite collection on Earth found in one of the driest...

large collision on the early Earth

Collisions after moon formation remodeled early Earth

A new mineral from the oldest solar system solids in meteorites

Rover findings indicate stratified lake on ancient Mars

Illustration of the giant asteroid collision in outer space that produced the dust that led to an ice age on Earth. Credit: (c) Don Davis, Southwest Research Institute

Dust from a giant asteroid crash caused an ancient ice age

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