Kärdla crater

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Location of Kardla

Kärdla (also Kärdla astrobleme) is a meteorite crater near the town of Kärdla in Estonia.

It is Script error: No such module "convert". in diameter and its age is estimated to be about 455 million years (Late Ordovician). The crater is not exposed at the surface.[1]

Its formation has been associated with the breakdown of 100km asteroid, that might have also resulted in the Tvären and Lockne craters in Sweden among others.[2]

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  2. A rain of L-Chondrites in the Thorsberg quarry at Kinnekulle, southern Sweden-Thomas Müller TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany.

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