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Has A Meteor Ever Hit Earth Before?

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The most famous impact was the impact that occured 65 million years ago, the one that supposidly wiped out the dinosaurs. But this is not the only impact earth has had. In 1995geolgists concluded that there was a total of 139 caters known to man in 2005 that figure went up by nearly 20 craters.these are the most famous craters left from meteroites that have hit earth In the past most of the impacts with earth have been rocksgeolgists concluded that there was a total of 139 caters known to man in 2005 that figure went up by nearly 20 craters.====== these are the most famous craters left from meteroites that have hit earth.

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In the past most of the impacts with earth have been rocks
not more that 20-30cm in width but a recent impact was recorded to be nearly 40cm in length scientists say that the reason for this particular astroids size is it came much farther out in space than regular meteorites and was a lot colder than most meteorites which may have contributed to its size. Home