Editing Impact event (section)

==== Holocene ====
{{Further|Holocene}}
The [[Rio Cuarto craters]] in Argentina were produced approximately 10,000 years ago, at the beginning of the Holocene. If proved to be impact craters, they would be the first impact of the Holocene.

The [[Campo del Cielo]] ("Field of Heaven") refers to an area bordering Argentina's [[Chaco Province]] where a group of iron meteorites were found, estimated as dating to 4,000–5,000 years ago. It first came to attention of Spanish authorities in 1576; in 2015, police arrested four alleged smugglers trying to steal more than a ton of protected meteorites.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.yahoo.com/four-arrested-argentina-smuggling-more-ton-meteorites-210404348.html|title=Four arrested in Argentina smuggling more than ton of meteorites|website=news.yahoo.com}}</ref> The [[Henbury craters]] in Australia (~5,000 years old) and [[Kaali crater]]s in Estonia (~2,700 years old) were apparently produced by objects that broke up before impact.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://nt.gov.au/leisure/parks-reserves/find-a-park-to-visit/henbury-meteorites-conservation-reserve | title=Henbury Meteorites Conservation Reserve| date=2018-12-17}}</ref>{{citation needed|date=June 2018}}

[[Whitecourt crater]] in Alberta, Canada is estimated to be between 1,080 and 1,130 years old. The crater is approximately 36&nbsp;m (118&nbsp;ft) in diameter and 9&nbsp;m (30&nbsp;ft) deep, is heavily forested and was discovered in 2007 when a metal detector revealed fragments of meteoric iron scattered around the area.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.passc.net/EarthImpactDatabase/whitecourt.html |title=Whitecourt |access-date=2017-07-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170718105534/http://www.passc.net/EarthImpactDatabase/whitecourt.html |archive-date=2017-07-18 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.whitecourtstar.com/2012/07/03/whitecourt-crater-attracts-visitors | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305210537/http://www.whitecourtstar.com/2012/07/03/whitecourt-crater-attracts-visitors | url-status=dead | archive-date=2016-03-05 | title=Whitecourt Star }}</ref>

A Chinese record states that 10,000 people were killed in the 1490 [[Qingyang event]] with the deaths caused by a hail of "falling stones"; some astronomers hypothesize that this may describe an actual meteorite fall, although they find the number of deaths implausible.<ref>{{Citation | last1 = Yau | first1 = K. | last2 = Weissman | first2 = P. | last3 = Yeomans | first3 = D. | title = Meteorite Falls in China and Some Related Human Casualty Events | journal = Meteoritics | volume = 29 | issue = 6| pages = 864–871 | postscript = . | doi=10.1111/j.1945-5100.1994.tb01101.x | bibcode=1994Metic..29..864Y| year = 1994 }}</ref>

[[Kamil Crater]], discovered from [[Google Earth]] image review in [[Egypt]], {{convert|45|m|ft|abbr=on}} in diameter and {{convert|10|m|ft|abbr=on}} deep, is thought to have been formed less than 3,500 years ago in a then-unpopulated region of western Egypt. It was found February 19, 2009 by V. de Michelle on a Google Earth image of the East Uweinat Desert, Egypt.<ref>USGS Meteoritical Society, Bulletin database, Gebel Kamil Crater ... http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?code=52031</ref>