Australia's Wolfe Creek Crater has allowed scientists to calculate how often meteorites hit Earth with the force of massive nuclear explosions.
With the oldest reliably-dated archaeological evidence for the arrival of people in Australia coming in at 65,000 years ago, it is unlikely anyone was killed when the Wolfe Creek Crater was formed.
The Wolfe Creek Crater is one of planet Earth's best-preserved craters, partly due to its relatively young age, but also due to its location.
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