1.8 billion years ago, a space rock the size of a small city collided with what's now Sudbury, Ontario. The impact created one of the largest craters on Earth - and also buried parts of Michigan in debris. Here's the story.
As part of this video, I traveled to the best Sudbury debris site in Michigan and met up with Dr. Bill Cannon, a Scientist Emeritus with the USGS who not only helped me understand the story, but also gave me a pretty incredible tour. I'm excited for y'all to learn from him.
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Bill was my key source for this video, but if you'd like to learn more about the Sudbury Impact, debris sites in Michigan, and more, I recommend this paper he co-authored; it was a helpful starting point for me: https://pages.mtu.edu/~raman/SilverI/MiTEP_ESI-2/Earth,_Moon,_Planets_files/CannonetalSudburyGSAB09.pdf
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