Double Whammy: Asteroids Delivered One-Two Punch, page 1

Senior Science Writer

A pair of 35-million-year-old craters on Earth thought to have been carved by comets now appears to be the result of a broken asteroid that generated a slowly delivered shower of debris over millions of years.

One crater is in Chesapeake Bay off the Maryland coast. The other, called the Popigai crater, is in north-central Siberia. Estimates of their age suggest they were created a mere 10,000 years apart.

john

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Nothing new, forces caused by strong enough gravity can break asteroids to pieces same way comets. (like Shoemaker-Levy 9)

There are also double craters like Clearwater lakes in Canada

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And other propable double crater is Suvasvesi North and South in Finland.

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Here's one crater chain from Jupiter's moon Ganymede.
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