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8 unusual facts about Impact crater


Achar, Uruguay

The name Achar has been used for a crater on the planet Mars by the International Astronomical Union, although not specifically commemorating the village.

Fort Rock

They resemble impact craters formed by meteorites, but lack the heavy metal signature residues of space objects.

Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771

The high-speed impact compressed the soil, which almost immediately rebounded, throwing fragments and paper (including the note by Burke) back into the air, before flames consumed them.

Patomskiy crater

According to geophysicists, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg, astroblemes (meteorite craters) have a very different shape, and Patom crater is not one of them, he added.

Roclincourt

To this day, craters can still be found along the line of the front in this area.

Suevite

Suevite is a rock consisting partly of melted material, typically forming a breccia containing glass and crystal or lithic fragments, formed during an impact event.

Vichada River

The westward course of the Vichada is offset by an impact structure, called the Vichada Structure.

Vichada Structure

The Vichada Structure is a probable impact structure along the Vichada River in Colombia (Vichada Department), South America.


Aban, Russia

The name Aban has been used for a crater on the planet Mars by the International Astronomical Union, although not specifically commemorating the village.

Aki, Kōchi

The name Aki has been used for a crater on the planet Mars by the International Astronomical Union, although not specifically commemorating the city.

Burckle Crater

Burckle Crater is an undersea feature hypothesized to be an impact crater by the Holocene Impact Working Group.

Kentland crater

The Kentland crater, also known as the Kentland structure or the Kentland disturbed area, is an impact crater located near the town of Kentland in Newton County, Indiana, United States.

Mare Orientale

During the 1960s, rectified images of Mare Orientale by Gerard Kuiper at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory gave rise to the notion of it being an impact crater.

Morokweng crater

The Morokweng crater (or Morokweng impact structure) is an impact crater buried beneath the Kalahari Desert near the town of Morokweng in South Africa's North West province, close to the border with Botswana.

Pingualuit crater

The Pingualuit Crater (French: cratère des Pingualuit; Inuktitut, "where the land rises"), formerly called Chubb Crater and later New Quebec Crater (cratère du Nouveau-Québec), is a young impact crater, by geological standards, located in the Ungava Peninsula of Quebec.

Puchezh-Katunki crater

Puchezh-Katunki is a meteor crater in the Chkalovsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in Volga Federal District, Russia.

Tabun-Khara-Obo crater

Tabun-Khara-Obo is an impact crater in the Dornogovi Aimag (province) the south-east of Mongolia.

Tookoonooka crater

Tookoonooka is a large meteorite impact crater (astrobleme) situated in South West Queensland, Australia.


see also

LARLE crater

Meteor Crater is perhaps the best-known example of a small impact crater on the Earth.

Manicouagan

Manicouagan Reservoir, formed when the Manicouagan impact crater was converted to a reservoir.

Manicouagan River

The Manicouagan crater is the sixth-largest confirmed impact crater known on earth.

Santa Fe Crater

Santa Fe Crater is an impact crater in the Lunae Palus quadrangle of Mars, located at 19.5° North and 48.0° W. It is 20.5 km in diameter and was named after Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.