Mjølnir crater
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Mjølnir is a meteorite crater on the floor of Barents Sea off the coast of Norway.
It is 40 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be 142.0 ± 2.6 million years (Lower Cretaceous). The projectile was an estimated 2 km wide.
Mjølnir is the name of Thor's mythological hammer. Giving the crater this name was presumably an allusion to the power of the weapon, which is often described as breaking and smashing rocks.
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