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A crater is a bowl-shaped depression, or hollowed-out area, produced by the impact of a meteorite, volcanic activity, or an explosion.

A crater produced by the collision of a meteorite with the Earth (or another planet or moon) are called impact craters.

People also ask:

What are craters on your body? – Let’s not go there.

Is a crater a hole?

Yes, but not all holes are craters, and not all craters are holes. It’s complicated, ok.

The difference between a hole and crater is that a hole is a hollow spot in a surface while a crater is a hemispherical pit created by the impact of a meteorite or other object.

Note – the piece of rock that falls out of the sky and caused the crater in the first place, can go by several different names:

When it goes by it is called an asteroid,

– a meteor when it is heading our way.

– a meteorite once it lands here on our little planet. From time-to-time really big meteors do hit the earth – Wham! They usually destroy just about all life on earth. Luckily for us, this calamity is quite rare. About every 50 -150 million years, to be imprecise, giving life just enough time to recover.

This makes me a bit worried, as you can well imagine. Now, I am no astrophysicist by any stretch of the imagination, but I do have an imagination. Now imagine if some bunch of fuck-wits managed to create as much mass destruction as a giant meteor.  As I said, Life takes a big hit every now and then, but it has managed to recover each time – just. Thank God for that!

But imagine if said bunch of fuckwits inserted an extra ‘mass extinction event’ into this volatile mix, a mere 66 million years after the last one. What if our poor old planet didn’t have time to recover before the next meteor hit, Whammo!

Two in a row, a double whammy!

Even with no more humans around to fuck things up, that’s still a big ‘ If.’

It could well mean the end of life itself, on the only planet for miles around that has any at all. Now that is a sobering thought.

On a clear day in 1969 the most scientifically significant meteorite ever to fall on the earth, landed on the small town of Murchison, just a hop-ski-and-a-jump from our little hamlet. Fragments were scattered hither and thither.

That meteorite was 4 billion years old. Wow!

Meteorite hits Murchison, the 4 billionth episode of This Day Tonight, presented by Peter Couchman, quite a heart-throb in his day.

Oldies get out your tissues.

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The word crater can also be a term of endearment,

or a dote, a wretched thing – as in ‘in your dotage’

To dote

– be extremely and uncritically fond of.

“she doted on her two young children”

– adore

1.  lavish (someone) with affection or gifts.

 2. archaic – be silly or feeble-minded, especially as a result of old age.

     ‘in your dotage’

3. noun: informal – Irish

    A dote – a sweet or adorable person.

    “he’s gorgeous and the twins are dotes”

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OK,

I think we have gone far enough on that little expedition into the wilds of the interweb.

Thank you Google, for helping to make the world a smaller place.

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