Macha ( Russian: Мача) is a field of five

meteorite A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an object, such as a comet, asteroid, or meteoroid, that originates in outer space and survives its passage through the atmosphere to reach the surface of a planet or Natural satellite, moon. When the ...

craters Crater may refer to: Landforms * Impact crater, a depression caused by two celestial bodies impacting each other, such as a meteorite hitting a planet * Explosion crater, a hole formed in the ground produced by an explosion near or below the surf ...

located 685 kilometers (425 miles) northeast of Yakutsk in the

Sakha Republic Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia),, is the largest republic of Russia, located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of roughly 1 million. Sakha comprises half of the area of its governing Far Eas ...

in Siberia, Russia, ranging from in diameter. The two largest craters form the pear-shaped Abram Lake while the remaining three are located to the north. They have been very well preserved. The craters are the result of the fall of possible iron meteorites at approximately 5300 BCE ( Holocene), which would give them an age of about 7,300 years.

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Cruzio crater listDiscovery of the largest impact crater field on Earth
Impact craters of Russia Holocene impact craters Landforms of the Sakha Republic Impact craters of the Arctic {{SakhaRepublic-geo-stub

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