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Which one? There have been many.

Possibly you are referring to the Meteor Crater in Winslow, Arizona?

Or the Chicxulub impact that probably killed off the dinosaurs (and 75% of all other life on Earth) 65 million years ago? That one struck off the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.

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