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Heavy Impact

  • May 7, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

An impact crater is the hole left by a meteorite striking a planet, moon, or other celestial body. One of Earth’s largest is the Vredefort Crater in South Africa, which scientists say was created about two billion years ago by an asteroid more than six miles wide!

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