The Vredefort impact structure is the largest verified impact structure on Earth. [1] The crater, which has since been eroded away, has been estimated at 170–300 kilometres (110–190 mi) across when it was formed.

From between ten thousand years and one million years ago, and with a diameter of one km (0.62 mi) or more. The largest in the last one million years is the 14-kilometre (8.7 mi) Zhamanshin crater in Kazakhstan and has been described as being capable of …

Vredefort Crater – South Africa 27°0′S 27°30′E. This crater is not only the largest but also the oldest impact crater on Earth. 2.02 billion years ago, a meteorite or asteroid that was 6.2 to...

The Holsinger fragment, at roughly 0.8 m (2½ ft) across, is the largest discovered piece of the meteorite that created Meteor Crater, and it is exhibited in the crater visitor center. Meteor Crater came to the attention of scientists after American settlers encountered it in the 19th century.

2022年11月4日 · Barringer Crater, also known as Meteor Crater, formed relatively recently (geologically speaking) just 50,000 years ago when a large iron meteor measuring 98-feet (30-meter) to 164-feet...

2025年1月25日 · Vredefort Dome, the largest known meteorite impact structure on Earth. The Vredefort Dome is an area of raised land near the town of Vredefort in the Free State province of South Africa. The dome is at the centre of a crater formed by the impact of a very large meteorite about 2.023 billion years

2021年5月20日 · There are roughly 180 known impact craters worldwide and fully a third of them—including some of the biggest—are located in North America. These massive blast zones were formed by meteors,...

2019年7月14日 · It can be hard to visualize the sheer size of projectiles large enough to make entire species disappear–but today, scientists can analyze these massive impact craters to get an idea of how large ancient asteroids and meteors were.

2022年2月15日 · The largest impact crater on Earth, the Vredefort crater in South Africa, is 99 miles (160 km) wide and was likely created about 2 billion years ago, according to NASA's Earth Observatory. The...

2025年1月23日 · However, most of the Earth's most impressive meteor impacts happened long before humans roamed the planet. This includes the meteor that created the most enormous crater on Earth! What caused this gigantic crater?