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Unusual Crater in The North Sea Result of a Cosmic Collision, Study Confirms


Sometime in the Middle Eocene epoch, nearly 50 million years ago, a large object hurtled through Earth's atmosphere, crashing into the North Sea between what's now Britain and northwestern Europe.

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