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3 Meteor Crash Sites You Can Visit

Huge dents in the Earth’s crust have been made over the eons by meteors slamming into our planet. Depending on where they hit and the environmental conditions surrounding them, those craters are still visible millions of years after impact. For more about how science facts can be even cooler than science fiction, check out Neil deGrasse Tyson’s "StarTalk": http://bit.ly/STCraters

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On Jun 30, 2017
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Meteor Crater

A 150-foot (67-m)-wide metallic meteor struck the Mogollon Rim in modern-day Arizona, U.S.A., 50,000 years ago, leaving a mile-wide (1.6-km) hole that’s 60 stories deep.

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Chesapeake Bay

A mile-wide (1.6-km) meteor hit the Eastern Shore of the United States 35 million years ago, pushing the surrounding land downward. That indentation eventually filled with water.

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Chicxulub

About 65 million years ago, a 10-mile (16-km)-wide meteor pounded the planet off the coast of modern-day Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. Its impact on Earth’s atmosphere may have led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.

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