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association that had caught our fancy. We simply had to see
this place for ourselves and given its location where it sat right
here in our very own state of Maharashtra, just about 500 km.
from Mumbai. There is an undeniable mystery about the crater.
We felt it even while in Lonar.
HOW IT CAME TO BE
Thousands of stellar bodies and debris called asteroids and
meteoroids pass within striking distance of the Earth every
day. They range from the size of dust particles to those
spanning kilometres and weighing millions of tonnes. And
each time our planet is struck by a sizable extra-terrestrial
body, it leaves its mark in the form of an impact crater on
the Earth’s surface. And each one makes for a great story.
The most famous one being the theory that talks of a 10
km. wide asteroid that blazed through space, cut through our
atmosphere and hit the ground in the Yucatán Peninsula in
Mexico to form the 65-million-year old Chicxulub crater that
is believed to have triggered the mass extinction of dinosaurs.The moon sparkles in the night sky as it lights up the Lonar crater below. The impact crater was formed around 50,000 years ago when a meteor hit the earth.
Today, it cradles a lake at the center and a dense forest along the rim.