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World's Largest Impact Found In South Africa
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World's Largest Impact Found In South Africa
SpaceDaily
October 5, 1999
Johannesburg (AFP) October 5, 1999 - South African geologists have
identified a crater in central Free State province to be the oldest and
largest in the world caused by the impact of a comet or an asteroid,
scientists said.
World renowned University of the Witwatersrand (Wits)
paleo-anthropologist Philip Tobias told a public lecture on human
evolution here that the Vredefort crater, which is between 250 and 300
kilometers (150 and 190 miles) in diameter, was long thought to be of
volcanic origin.
Full story here:
http://www.spacedaily.com/spacecast/news/spaceguard-99g.html
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