Kara crater
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Kara is a meteorite crater in the Yugorsky Peninsula, Nenetsia, Russia.<ref>Template:Cite Earth Impact DB</ref>
Heavily eroded, it is presently Template:Convert in diameter, though it is thought to be originally Template:Convert before erosion. Its age is estimated to be 70.3 ± 2.2 million years old (Late Cretaceous). Impactite outcrops located on the Baydarata Gulf (Baydaratskaya) shore north-east of the crater imply that the original size of the crater could have been the 4th largest on Earth.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The crater is not exposed at the surface.
The Kara crater lies in the southeastern end of the Yugorsky Peninsula, while the Ust-Kara site lies offshore, Template:Convert east of the small Kara or Karskaya Guba inlet. It was formerly believed that these two sites were two separate craters and that they formed a twin impact structure from the Late Cretaceous. However, it seems that the Ust-Kara site does not exist as a separate site. Apparently, the suevite outcrops of the Ust-Kara impact structure are only a part of the Kara impact structure.<ref name=NASAHodge>NASA 1988, Hodge 1994</ref>Template:Full citation needed
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