It is estimated that the earth’s surface is struck past times nearly 500 meteorites a yr , exactly entirely nearly v or vi are large plenty to hold upward detected past times weather condition radar instruments or their fragments recovered. Large collisions that exit discernable affect craters are thankfully , extremely rare events , that occur inwards intervals of thousands of years on average. For trial , stony asteroids of size 100 meter inwards diameter boom public every v ,200 years on average. Such a collision would practise a crater 1.2 km across in addition to issue loose energy equivalent to 3.8 mega-ton of TNT , or nearly a K times to a greater extent than powerful than the combined loose energy of both the Hiroshima in addition to Nagasaki explosions. Larger collisions involving asteroids 1km inwards diameter are fifty-fifty rarer (every 500 ,000 years) , in addition to collisions amongst 5km objects are rarer nonetheless (once every xx 1000000 years). The final known affect of an object of 10 km inwards size was the dinosaur killer that happened 66 1000000 years ago.
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Lake Bosumtwi
Lake Bosumtwiis situated inside an ancient meteorite affect crater , 10.5 km across formed past times an affect 1.07 1000000 years go. The lake itself is slightly smaller , at around 8 kilometers across in addition to is the entirely natural lake inwards Ashanti in addition to Ghana. The lake is directly a pop resort expanse amongst local people for swimming , angling in addition to boat trips. There are nearly thirty villages close crater lake Lake Bosumtwi , amongst a combined population of nearly lxx ,000.
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