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Meteor Crater Hellas impact basin on Mars Vredefort Dome impact structure Chicxulub impact crater Tunguska event Chelyabinsk meteorite of 2013 average times between NEO impacts
DART spacecraft: asteroid crash
debris blasted from Dimorphos
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DART spacecraft: asteroid crash
On September 26, 2022, NASA intentionally crashed the DART spacecraft into the asteroid...
Video: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL

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Meteor Crater
Meteor Crater, near Winslow, Arizona. The crater is 1,200 metres (4,000 feet) in diameter and...
National Map Seamless Server/U.S. Geological Survey
Hellas impact basin on Mars
Hellas impact basin on Mars, shown in a topographic map (bottom) and an averaged...
NASA/JPL/Goddard Space Flight Center
Vredefort Dome impact structure
Vredefort Dome, the remnant of a meteorite impact crater in the Free State province...
Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center. "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth." (Mission: STS51I, Roll: 33, Frame: 56AA) (http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov)
Chicxulub impact crater
A computer-generated gravity map showing the immense Chicxulub crater, which resulted...
NASA
Tunguska event
The Siberian countryside after an explosion in the atmosphere above the Podkamennaya...
AP/REX/Shutterstock.com
Chelyabinsk meteorite of 2013
A cloud trail left behind by a meteoroid that later exploded over Chelyabinsk province,...
Elizaveta Becker—ullstein bild/Getty Images
average times between NEO impacts
Estimated average times between impacts on Earth for near-Earth objects (NEOs) over...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
debris blasted from Dimorphos
This imagery from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope from October 8, 2022, shows the debris...
NASA/ESA/STScI/Hubble
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