Behold the Weird Physics of Double-Impact Asteroids - WIRED

Mars is littered with craters made by binary asteroids. These collisions are as intriguing as they are powerful.

The best candidate for a binary crater on Earth today is the Lockne crater in Sweden and a smaller crater nearby called Målingen. We dated these structures very exactly and saw that they formed at ex… [+2939 chars]

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