Impact crater of largest meteorite to ever strike UK discovered

The one kilometre wide, three billion tonne rock smashed down in the Minch basin, between what is now the isles of Lewis and Harris in the Outer Hebrides and the town of Ullapool.
British researchers said a witness to the strike 1.2bn years ago would have had "quite a spectacle" as the meteor travelling at 40,000mph struck Earth with a force 940 million times greater than the Hiroshima bomb.
Despite it leaving a 40km-wide crater, the Aberdeen and Oxford team said it was pure chance that any trace had been preserved over the millennia

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