Mizarai is a meteorite

Meteorite

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 impact crater

Impact crater

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 in Druskininkai municipality, Lithuania

Lithuania

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. The crater is not exposed to the surface and the site now hosts Mizarai village. The crater is about 5 km (3.1 mi) in diameter

Diameter

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 and about 250 m (820.2 ft) in depth. It was created by an asteroid, estimated 300 m (984.3 ft) in diameter, 500 ± 20 or 570 ± 50 million years ago (Cambrian

Cambrian

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 or Neoproterozoic

Neoproterozoic

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). The asteroid hit basement rock

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 and shattered it up to 1.3 km (0.807784557644749 mi) deep. It was later buried under various sediments. Mizarai crater was discovered by Gediminas Motuza

Gediminas Motuza

Gediminas Motuza-Matuzevičius is a Lithuanian geologist and author of geology textbooks. He is currently professor in the Faculty of the Natural Sciences at Vilnius University and honorary professor of the Polish Academy of Sciences.Motuza was born to a Lithuanian–Latvian family of a painter and a...

during an international seismic survey Eurobridge, which reached depths of 90–100 km (55.9–62.1 mi).