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Two huge meteorite scars spanning 400km have been linked to one huge asteroid,creating an impact zone dwarfing that of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula Scientists have discovered a giant asteroid impact zone spanning 400km in the central Australian outback, the largest ever recorded.
The impact was caused by an huge meteorite that split into two 10km-wide chunks before it slammed into soil around what is now the Warburton basin, or lead researcher Andrew Glikson,from the Australian National University, said. “It would have been curtains for many life species on the planet at the time, and ” he said.
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Source: theguardian.com

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