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Crater Name
Location
Latitude
Longitude
Diameter (km)
Age (Ma)*
Exposed
Drilled
Target Rock**
Bolide Type***
Russia
N 71° 0'
E 121° 40'
8
40 ± 20
Y
N
S
-
Kazakhstan
N 48° 34'
E 82° 1'
8
5 ± 3
Y
Y
M
-
Kazakhstan
N 49° 10'
E 57° 51'
5.5
46 ± 7
Y
Y
S
-
Russia
N 75° 42'
E 97° 48'
6
< 70
Y
Y
M
-
India
N 25°18'
E 78° 8'
11
1700 - 2100
Y
N
M
-
Russia
N 67° 30'
E 172° 5'
18
3.5 ± 0.5
Y
N
C
Achondrite
Russia
N 48° 26'
E 40° 32'
3
49.0 ± 0.2
N
Y
S
-
Russia
N 61° 58'
E 30° 55'
14
700 ± 5
Y
N
C-Ms
-
Jordan
N 31° 03'
E 36° 48'
5.5
56 - 37
Y
N
S
-
Russia
N 54° 30'
E 36° 12'
15
380 ± 5
N
Y
M
-
Ukraine
N 47° 46'
E 32° 21'
1.2-4
2100-11.63
N
Y
C
-
Russia
N 48° 21'
E 40° 30'
25
49.0 ± 0.2
N
Y
S
-
Russia
N 69° 6'
E 64° 9'
65
70.3 ± 2.2
N
Y
M
Chondrite
Tajikistan
N 39° 1'
E 73° 27'
52
<5
Y
N
C
-
Russia
N 54° 55'
E 48° 2'
10
5 ± 1
Y
Y
S
-
Russia
N 51° 42'
E 36° 0'
6
250 ± 80
N
Y
M
-
Russia
N 65° 31'
E 95° 56'
20
40 ± 20
N
N
M
-
India
N 19° 58'
E 76° 31'
1.83
0.052 ± 0.006
Y
Y
C
-
Russia
N 60° 6'
E 117° 35'
0.3
< 0.007
Y
N
S
Iron
Russia
N 58° 43'
E 28° 3'
2.5
300 ± 50
Y
Y
M
-
Russia
N 71° 39'
E 111° 11'
90****
35.7 ± 0.2
Y
Y
M
Chondrite
Russia
N 56° 58'
E 43° 43'
40****
167 ± 3
N
Y
M
-
Russia
N 58° 44'
E 61° 48'
9
46 ± 3
N
Y
M
-
India
N 25°20'
E 76° 37'
10 
~750-165
Y 
Y
S
-
Saudi Arabia
N 29°35'
E 38° 42'
34
70 - 410
N
Y
S
-
Kazakhstan
N 47° 12'
E 72° 42'
2.8
45 ± 10
Y
Y
C
-
Russia
N 46° 7'
E 134° 40'
0.02
0.000067
Y
N
C
Hexahedrite
Russia
N 46° 18'
E 137° 52'
0.05
< 0.001
Y
Y
M
Iron Meteoritic Material Found
Russia
N 63° 7'
E 33° 23'
16
~ 2400
-
-
C-Ms
-
Mongolia
N 44° 07'
E 109° 39'
1.3
150 ± 20
Y
N
C
-
Saudi Arabia
N 21° 30'
E 50° 28'
0.11
0.00014
Y
Y
S
IIIAB iron
China
N 40° 21'
E 123° 27'
1.8
> 0.05
Y
Y
M
-
Kazakhstan
N 48° 24'
E 60° 58'
14
0.9 ± 0.1
Y
Y
M
Chondrite (Iron?)

* pre-1977 K-Ar, Ar-Ar and Rb-Sr ages recalculated using the decay constants of Steiger and Jager (1977) Ages in millions of years (Ma) before present.

** Abbreviations: C - Crystalline Target; C-Ms - Metasedimentary Target; M - Mixed Target (i.e.sedimentary strata overlying crystalline basement); S - sedimentary target (i.e. no crystalline rocks affected by the impact event). From Osinski. G. R., Spray J. G., and Grieve R. A. F. 2007. Impact melting in sedimentary target rocks: A synthesis. In The Sedimentary Record of Meteorite Impacts, Geological Society of America Special Paper. Editors: Evans K. Horton W., King D., Morrow J., and Warme J. Geological Society of America: Boulder, in press.

***From Koeberl,C. Identification of meteoritic components in impactites. 1998, Koeberl, C. The Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry of Impacts. 2007 and PASSC Files. (IAB, IIIAB, IIIB, IIID - Iron Meteorite)