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  2. Odessa Meteor Crater - Wikipedia

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    This is one of three impact crater sites found in Texas, the others being the older and much larger Sierra Madera crater and the Marquez crater. The Handbook of Texas Online describes the Odessa meteor crater as the largest of several smaller craters in the immediate area that were formed by the impact of thousands of octahedrites (an iron ...

  3. Marquez crater - Wikipedia

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    Marquez crater is a meteorite crater located in Leon County, Texas near the small town of Marquez about 177 km (110 mi) northeast of Austin, Texas, United States. [1]It is 12.7 km (8 mi) in diameter and the age is estimated to be 58 ± 2 million years ().

  4. List of Solar System objects by size - Wikipedia

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    This list includes few examples since there are about 589 asteroids in the asteroid belt with a measured radius between 20 and 49 km. [171] Many thousands of objects of this size range have yet to be discovered in the trans-Neptunian region.

  5. Asteroid the size of a 20-story building headed for Earth in ...

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    A large asteroid is headed towards Earth – and could collide with us in just a few years. Known as Asteroid 2024 YR4, the nearly 200-foot space rock could hit just before Christmas of 2032 ...

  6. Asteroid Alinda: How to get a glimpse of massive, once in a ...

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    On Sunday, the asteroid will reach a peak brightness of magnitude 9.4, which is too faint for the naked eye but visible through entry-level binoculars or a backyard telescope, according to ...

  7. Texas State Police - Wikipedia

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    The Texas State Police was formed during the administration of Governor Davis on July 22, 1870, to combat crime during the Reconstruction Era of the United States.Davis also created the Texas Special Police, State Guard of Texas, and the Texas Reserve Militia, which was the forerunner of the Texas National Guard.

  8. Could an asteroid really hit Earth? Odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

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    Asteroid 2024 YR4 also rates 3 of 10 on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale, a method for astronomers to categorize and rate the threat of near-Earth objects. The scale ranges from 0 (no chance of ...

  9. Chicxulub crater - Wikipedia

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    The authors, William F. Bottke, David Vokrouhlický, and David Nesvorný, argued that a collision in the asteroid belt 160 million years ago between a 170 km (110 mi) diameter parent body and another 60 km (37 mi) diameter body resulted in the Baptistina family of asteroids, the largest surviving member of which is 298 Baptistina.