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The 50,000-year-old explosion that created Arizona’s giant crater

Roughly 50,000 years ago, a massive iron meteorite slammed into what is now northern Arizona, creating one of the most ...
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Arizona’s Meteor Crater still yields new clues about its impact

A peer-reviewed study published in the journal Geology proposes that the same asteroid strike that carved Arizona’s Meteor ...
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In physics first, Chinese scientists create rare 'hexagonal diamond' that's harder than natural diamond

Researchers made small, pure samples of the elusive mineral lonsdaleite – also known as hexagonal diamond — and tested its ...

Arizona's Meteor Crater is still revealing new secrets 50,000 years later

Arizona's Meteor Crater remains 'the perfect natural laboratory' for studying what happens when meteors strike Earth, scientists say.