A long-running debate about the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea has finally been resolved. Scientists now confirm it formed when a roughly 160-meter asteroid struck the seabed about 43–46 ...

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Asteroid hit North Sea: A long-standing scientific debate has finally been resolved: the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea was formed by a massive asteroid impact around 43–46 million years ago.

Picture a space rock the size of a football pitch crashing into the North Sea's shallow seabed 43 to 46 million years ago.

For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy. Some geologists were adamant that an asteroid produced the nearly-perfect ...