The town of Nordlingen in the Donau-Ries district of western Bavaria, Germany, is unlike any other town in the district. In fact, it's unlike any other town on the whole planet. This pretty medieval town, with a population of 20,000, is situated entirely inside a massive meteorite crater 25 km across. This crater called the Nördlinger Ries, was formed some 14.5 million years ago when a meteor about a mile across slammed into Earth. It was only in the 1960s that evidence emerged confirming the town’s extraordinary origin.
The city of Nördlingen. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
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The Nördlinger Ries Impact Crater
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