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July 26th, 2010
Google Earth Helps Spot New Impact Crater in Egypt

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DAILY GALAXY – Researchers studying Google Earth images have discovered a 45-meter-wide impact crater in southwestern Egypt that appears to have being created by iron meteorite no more than a few thousand years ago. Although the crater was first noticed in autumn 2008, researchers have identified that impact on satellite images taken as far back as 1972, says Luigi Folco, a cosmochemist at the University of Siena in Italy as he reported online July 22 in Science. Read More