San Francisco City would fit neatly inside
this Barringer Meteorite Crater in Arizona, USA.
Meteor Craters
- the most famous and best-preserved meteorite crater on Earth is named the Barringer Crater which measures 1.2 miles wide and 175 metres deep – 50,000 years ago, a giant fireball streaked across the North American sky ~ it struck the earth in what is now northern Arizona, exploding with the force of 2½ million tons of TNT.
The Barringer Crater, Arizona, USA
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- near Henbury in northern Australia – group of 13 separate craters that must have been formed by the fragments of a meteorite that broke up  moments before it impacted the earth.
Henbury Craters
Group of 13 meteorite craters in a desert area 8 miles (13 km)
west-southwest of Henbury, Northern Territory, central Australia,
within the Henbury Meteorite Conservation Park.
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- measuring some 15 miles across – the Ries Crater in southern Germany was caused by a meteorite about ¾ mile in diameter – the town of Nordlingen is built on the dried-up bed of a lake that once filled the crater.
Unknowingly built inside Ries Crater in southern Germany.
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- a 63 miles Manicouagan Crater in Canada is more than 200 million years old – a ring-shaped lake has formed around the `peak` at the centre of this much eroded crater. (photo)
Manicouagan Crater, Canada
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- scientists have discovered the remains of a 125 miles Chicxulub Crater beneath the sea floor off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico – it is likely that this crater was caused by the asteroid strike that may have wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
Chicxulub Crater
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- seabed drilling has revealed the existence of a crater 53 miles in diameter beneath the waters of Chesapeake Bay on the east coast of the USA – the crater was identified by fragments of shocked quartz, which are only formed by meteorite impacts.
Discover the largest meteorite crater in the United States.
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