Shatter cones were everywhere, developed throughout most of the Antarctic Creek Member, which we traced for several hundred meters into the rolling hills of the Pilbara.

The shatter cones revealed that the meteorite was traveling roughly 22,400 miles per hour (36,000 km/h) when it hit the ground, according to the statement.

Shatter cones were everywhere, developed throughout most of the Antarctic Creek Member, which we traced for several hundred metres into the rolling hills of the Pilbara.

Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater in Western Australia. It has been dated to about 3.5 billion years ago, at a time when these almost literally Earth ...

Shatter cones, which are features caused by the shockwave of a hypervelocity meteorite impact, are evidence that something hit this region when Earth was young.

Research by the Geological Survey of Western Australia dated the rock around the shatter cones as 3.47 billion years old. Tim Barrows, a scientist at the University of New South Wales, ...

Shatter cones, which are features caused by the shockwave of a hypervelocity meteorite impact, are evidence that something hit this region when Earth was young.

UNSW earth scientist Tim Barrows, who was not part of the study, said the presence of shatter cones was an unambiguous sign of an impact and an "exciting discovery".

The shatter cones at the site, about 40 kilometers west of Marble Bar in WA's Pilbara region, were formed when a meteorite slammed into the area at more than 36,000km/h.

Professor Johnson, from Curtin University, said the team of experts looked at so-called ‘shatter cones’, which were formed when the space rock hit the Earth at over 22,000 miles per hour.

Shatter cones were everywhere, developed throughout most of the Antarctic Creek Member, which we traced for several hundred meters into the rolling hills of the Pilbara.

If future fieldwork confirms that these cones are present throughout the 40- to 45-kilometer (25- to 28-mile) diameter of the North Pole Dome, this lines up with the 62-mile (100-km) crater size ...