That means a round space rock 66 feet wide (20 m) would have a mass of 6459 tons (5,860 metric tonnes) if it were a carbonaceous asteroid, 12,458 tons (11,302 metric tonnes) if it were a stony

South Africa's Vredefort Crater is Earth's largest impact crater. New Research clarifies the power of the impact and its catastrophic effects.

meteorite crater, depression that results from the impact of a natural object from interplanetary space with Earth or with other comparatively large solid bodies such as the Moon, other planets and their satellites, or larger asteroids and comets. For this discussion, the term meteorite crater is considered to be synonymous with impact crater.

One of the best-known craters on Earth is Meteor Crater, near Winslow, Arizona. The crater was created instantly when a 50-meter (164-foot), 150,000-ton meteorite slammed into the desert about 50,000 years ago. Meteor Crater is 1.2 kilometers (0.75 miles) in diameter and 175 meters (575 feet) deep. The Vredefort crater in South Africa: Created about 2 billion years ago, this 160 Kms large crater is remnant of the largest asteroid to hit Earth. Based on the crater size, it is estimated that the asteroid must have been 10-15Kms in diameter. For reference, it is bigger than the one that killed dinosaurs.
A huge impact crater called the South Pole-Aitken basin lies on the moon’s far side. As far as we know, this bad boy is the largest impact crater in the Solar System, measuring around 1,600 miles in diameter and ranging in depth from 3.9 to 5.1 miles. It is the Moon’s biggest, oldest, and deepest known basin.

The impactor — most likely an asteroid — formed what is today the biggest crater on the planet. Scientists have widely accepted, based on previous research, that the impact structure, known as the Vredefort crater, was formed by an object about 15 kilometers (approximately 9.3 miles) in diameter that was travelling at a velocity of 15

New research confirmed the extraterrestrial origin of a crater in China's Heilongjiang Province. With 1.85 kilometers in diameter and more than 300 meters deep, it is the largest impact on Earth

Dworkin’s lab will receive pieces of asteroid Bennu for study after the sample arrives on Earth on Sept. 24, 2023. In this picture, Dworkin is holding a fragment of the Canyon Diablo meteorite, which struck Earth about 50,000 years ago, creating Meteor Crater in Arizona.

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