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Huge crater in India hints at major meteorite impact 4000 years ago

The Luna structure, a 1.8-kilometre-wide depression in north-west India, may have been caused by the largest meteorite to strike Earth in the past 50,000 years

By Joshua Rapp Learn

26 March 2024

The Luna structure, a possible crater in Gujarat, India

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A possible impact crater discovered in India may have been caused by the largest meteorite to strike Earth in the past 50,000 years.

The meteorite could have caused a fireball, a massive shock wave and wildfires that would have spread through an area inhabited by people from the Indus valley civilisation thousands of years ago.

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