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Largest-ever meteorite crater found in Australian outback

5 pointsby yuashizukiabout 10 years ago

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tim333about 10 years ago
Largest unless the Wilkes Land crater proves real<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkes_Land_crater" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Wilkes_Land_crater</a><p>A lot of the craters seem to match up with extinction events which is kind of relevant to the debates over the dangers of climate change - if all the major extinctions were huge astroids hitting then regular climate fluctuations are less worrying I guess.<p>I&#x27;m kind of fond of the Antipodes lava flow theories such as that an impact may have caused Hawaii:<p><a href="http://www.rense.com/general12/created.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rense.com&#x2F;general12&#x2F;created.htm</a>