Mizarai crater

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Mizarai Crater is an impact crater in Lithuania , Druskininkai municipality . It is named after the village of Mizarai , which is located in the center of the crater. The crater was found by the Lithuanian geologist Gediminas Motuza Matuzevičius (* 1946) during a seismic survey. It is eroded and covered by glacial deposits, so it is not visible. Its diameter is 5 km and its age is estimated to be 570 million years.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas Wm. Hamilton: Impact Craters of Earth: with Selected Craters Elsewhere . Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency, 2014, ISBN 978-1-63135-353-6 , pp. 20 .
  2. ↑ Mizarai . In: Earth Impact Database . Archived from the original on August 15, 2016. Retrieved August 15, 2016. (English)

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Coordinates: 54 ° 1 ′ 12 ″  N , 23 ° 56 ′ 24 ″  E