Hickman Crater

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The Hickman Crater is a newly-discovered probable meteorite impact crater, 35 kilometres north of Newman, Western Australia. It was discovered by Arthur Hickman, a Government Geologist with the Geological Survey of Western Australia, in July 2007. The discovery was made by chance while browsing Google Earth.[1]

About 260 metres wide and metres deep, the crater is thought to be between 10,000 and 100,000 years old.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Stephen Hutcheon (March 25, 2008). "Sudden impact: Google unearths rare meteorite crater". The Age. Retrieved on 2008-03-29.

Coordinates: 23°2′13.4″S 119°40′59.3″E / -23.037056, 119.683139

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