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Which one? The Earth has been pummeled by asteroids and comets in the last 5 billion years.

Some are obvious; Meteor Crater in Arizona, for example. There it is, right there. There's even a gift shop and signs. There are hundreds of others. Download Google Earth, and look for circles; circular lakes, circular mountains, circular bays.

But because the Earth's crust is 75% covered with water, many of the craters aren't visible. And because the Earth's crust is active, rain and earthquakes eventually destroy the crater walls.

Possibly the asteroid you are thinking of is the one that killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. That happened near the town of Chicxulub at the tip of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico.

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