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Boxhole crater
Boxhole crater. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Boxhole is a young impact crater located approximately 180 km (265 km by road) north-east of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, Australia. It is 170 metres in diameter and its age is estimated to be 5,400 ± 1,500 years based on the cosmogenic 14C terrestrial age of the meteorite, placing it in the Holocene. The crater is exposed to the surface.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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