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Shoemaker impact structure

Impact crater
Shoemaker is an impact structure, the deeply eroded remnant of a former impact crater, situated in arid central Western Australia, about 100 km north-northeast of Wiluna. It is named in honour of planetary geologist Eugene Shoemaker. Wikipedia
Coordinates: 25°52′S 120°53′E / 25.867°S 120.883°E
Age: 1630 ± 5 Ma (contested, see text); Proterozoic