Ricochet from a meteorite impact on Earth created a huge 'field' of craters that so far, we have only seen examples of on other planets. The unique site in southeast Wyoming has more than 30 The history of Earth’s bombardment by asteroids is largely concealed. There are a few reasons for this. The first is erosion: the process by which gravity, wind and water slowly wear away land materials through time. When an asteroid strikes, it creates a crater with an uplifted core. 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 The asteroid smashed into Earth, leaving a thirty-one-kilometer-wide, one-kilometer-deep crater. The crater is big enough to contain the entire city of Washington D.C. June 1, 2020 at 12:56 pm. The asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago left behind more than a legacy of mass destruction. That impact also sent superheated seawater swirling through On the first Asteroid Day, see some of the biggest planetary wounds from orbit. It is roughly four billion years old and is the largest verified impact crater on Earth, estimated to be more —Fragment of 1,000-pound meteor that exploded over Texas could reveal new insights about our solar system —Massive asteroid hit Greenland when it was a lush rainforest, under-ice crater shows —Scientists uncover the largest crater on Earth under 100,000 years old "There are two groups of impact-related rocks," Yakymchuk said. The Odessa Meteor Crater measures 550 feet in diameter and about 100 feet deep. However, due to soil and debris buildup, the crater currently sits at only 15 feet deep. The site, discovered in the —The largest asteroid impact crater on Earth is lurking beneath Australia, new evidence suggests — Strange yellow glass found in Libyan desert may have formed from lost meteor impact Establishing the rate at which craters appear on Mars is critical for refining the planet’s geologic timeline. On older surfaces, such as those of Mars and our Moon, there are more craters than on Earth; on our planet, the processes of erosion and plate tectonics erase older features from the surface. bKUsIL.