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Long Ago, the Number of Meteors Hitting Earth Spiked Suddenly – and Didn’t Stop

The Lonar crater lake. Credit: Vivek Ganesan/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

The Extraterrestrial Spell Of Maharashtra’s Lonar Crater