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Wolfe Creek Crater: the second largest meteor impact site in the world. Dainis Dravins - Lund Observatory, Sweden. Australia is famous for its natural beauty: the Great Barrier Reef, Uluru, Kakadu ...
The Wolfe Creek Crater is one of planet Earth's best-preserved craters, partly due to its relatively young age, but also due to its location. Compared to the Moon, ...
The Wolfe Creek Crater, often hailed as Australia’s best-preserved meteorite impact site, is a testament to the cosmic events that have shaped our planet. Imagine standing at the edge of this ...
Wolfe Creek Crater But it is the Wolfe Creek Crater and the Bungle Bungles which hold the most appeal. Neither is easy to get to. Wolfe Creek Crater is located 151 km south of the town on a less ...
The crater was brought to greater fame when it was featured in the slasher horror film Wolf Creek. Submitted by Atlas Obscura contributor samreeve. For more on Wolfe Creek Crater, visit Atlas Obscura!
Wolfe Creek Crater is one of seven sets of impact craters in Australia dating to within the last 120,000 years. From this, the researchers were able to calculate as to how often these crater- ...
Wolfe Creek Crater in northern WA was formed by a massive meteorite smashing into Earth as long as 300,000 years ago; The crater was a gathering place for Indigenous people for thousands of years, ...
The name for the crater comes from its vicinity to the nearby Wolfe Creek, after being spotted during aerial surveys in the 1940s. But the crater has long been known to the Aboriginal people as ...
Now don’t be alarmed, but in the past few days we’ve had three asteroids make close passes of Earth – the 35m-wide rock named 2020 RL, the 28m-wide 2021 RA10, and the 20m-wide 2012 SX49.
The age of Wolfe Creek meteorite crater ( Kandimalal ), Western Australia. Meteoritics & Planetary Science , 2019; 54 (11): 2686 DOI: 10.1111/maps.13378 Cite This Page : ...