Scientists have crunched the numbers for the September 2007 meteorite
that landed in the Andes and suggest that the
larger than normal impact crater resulted from the object’s unusually high
speed.
HAD A BLAST The meteorite that fell in eastern Peru on September 15, 2007, struck with the energy of two tons of TNT and blasted a 13.5-meter–wide
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