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Describe each crater using details and when this happened. Please use complete sentences.
Chicxulub Crater
Manicouagan Crater
Chesapeake Bay Crater
Sudbury Basin​

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Answer: Chicxulub Crater
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Explanation:

Chicxulub Crater

When an asteroid the size of the Chicxulub impactor, estimated to be more than six miles wide, strikes a planet, material is ripped up from below the surface and tossed into the air, collapsing in circular mountain range within the crater.

when it happen=It was tens of miles wide and forever changed history when it crashed into Earth about 66 million years ago. The Chicxulub impactor, as it's known, was a plummeting asteroid or comet that left behind a crater off the coast of Mexico that spans 93 miles and goes 12 miles deep

Manicouagan Crater

Manicouagan Crater was formed by an asteroid strike over 214 million years ago. Like a pebble creating ripples when dropped into water, the crater has concentric rings formed by shock waves transmitted by the impact. The most prominent feature of the crater is its 70 km (40 mi) diameter inner ring.

When did it happen=about 212 million years ago

The impact that formed Manicouagan is thought to have occurred about 212 million years ago, toward the end of the Triassic period. Some scientists believe that this impact may have been responsible for a mass extinction associated with the loss of roughly 60 percent of all species.

Chesapeake Bay Crater

The Chesapeake Bay impact crater was formed by a bolide that impacted the eastern shore of North America about 35.5 ± 0.3 million years ago, in the late Eocene epoch. It is one of the best-preserved "wet-target" impact craters in the world.

Sudbury Basin​

The Sudbury Basin also known as Sudbury Structure or the Sudbury Nickel Irruptive, is a major geological structure in Ontario, Canada. It is the third-largest known impact crater or astrobleme on Earth, as well as one of the oldest. The crater formed 1.849 billion years ago in the Paleoproterozoic era

when did it happen=1.8 billion years ago

The Sudbury Basin, which is the world's second-largest impact crater, was likely formed by an enormous comet that battered Earth more than 1.8 billion years ago, new research suggests.

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