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Gold miners discover 100 million-year-old meteorite crater Down Under – Live Science

The meteorite may have been longer than two football fields.

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Gold miners in the Australian Outback recently discovered a gigantic meteorite
crater dating to about 100 million years ago, back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
Found near the Western Australian town of Ora Banda, the newly dubbed Ora Banda Impact Crater is about 3 miles (5 kilometers) across. This huge hole was likely created by a meteorite up to 660 feet (200 meters) wide, or longer than the length of two American football fields, according to Resourc.ly
, a Western Australia news outlet…

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