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When a large meteorite hits the ground it can produce a crater. Meteorite craters are rare on the Earth, because the atmosphere slows the meteorite and also usually burns it up. Many ancient meteorite craters have been worn away by water and by weather over thousands of years.

On planets and moons with no atmosphere, huge numbers of meteorites strike with enormous power. Our own Moon is estimated to have 3,000,000 million meteorite craters measuring 1 m or more in diameter. Some of the large read more...

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