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Asteroid Day 2022: 7 massive craters on Earth visible from space

by Jennifer Walter
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Over the last 4.5 billion years, Earth has been slammed with space rocks several times, seemingly at random.

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Those rogue space rocks have their own holiday: International Asteroid Day, celebrated on June 30.

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