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North Sea Silverpit crater mystery is solved after 43 million years

The Silverpit crater mystery in the North Sea appears to have been solved. Scientists say it was formed by an asteroid 43 million years ago. Scientists have found that a buried crater beneath the North Sea, named Silverpit, was created by an asteroid strike more than 43 million years ago. The discovery resolves a decades-long geological dispute and reframes the seabed as the preserved aft... [5193 chars]

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