100 million-year-old meteorite crater found in Western Australia

An approximately 100 million-year-old meteorite crater has been discovered in Western Australia. This was found while a local mining company was drilling for gold. This million years old meteorite crater has a diameter of about 5 km. 

100 million-year-old meteorite crater

meteorite crater was found using electromagnetic surveys. Its exact location is near Goldfields mining town, Ora Banda, rth-west side of Kalgoorlie-Boulder. size of crater is predicted to be 5 times bigger than very popular Wolfe Creek crater in Kimberly. This newly discovered meteorite crater in Western Australia is one of largest of its kind in world. 

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geologist and geophysicist, Dr Jayson Meyers, said that find was important and unexpected. He added, "This discovery was made in an area where landscape is very flat. You wouldn’t kw it was re because crater has been filled in over geological time." In a statement, Meyers said that this crater discovery will result in more significant discoveries. 

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According to Dr Jayson Meyers, re are quite a few more craters out re. He says that earth has been hit by more . of asteroids than one can think of. If scientists will start to identify more of se, landscape will begin to change and questions like what's frequency and why are y happening. Studying such discoveries relating to geological histories will help experts tp predict next event that will happen or next asteroid which will hit earn can be seen. 

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Earlier this year, scientists discovered world’s oldest meteorite crater in Western Australia’s mid-west. crater was called Yarrabubba crater which is believed to be 2.23 billion years old. 

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