Discovery: Earth's Oldest Crater Is Largest Too, page 1

Discovery: Earth's Oldest Crater Is Largest Too

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Researchers think the crater was formed 3 billion years ago, making it the oldest ever found, said Danish researcher Adam Garde. The impact crater currently measures about 62 miles (100 kilometers) from one side to another. But before it eroded, it was likely more than 310 miles (500 km) wide, which would make it the biggest on Earth

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Only 180 have been found, due to our not in existence for all time Atmosphere, which I find very interesting, as we've already found more than 10% of that #, of pyramids on Earth.

My thoughts range from We need to protect our Atmosphere to Stuffs been zipping around our galaxy a long time [this was a big chunk, platinum and nickel].

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reply to post by AlchemistSwami

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This is amazing good find Alchemist, I'm always really interested in this sort of stuff S@F

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another quote from the article:

The team has calculated it was caused by a meteorite 19 miles (30 km) wide, which, if it hit Earth today, would wipe out all higher life.

Space.com is a good site, I subscribe to it on Facebook, lots of interesting developments.

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