Editing Impact crater (section)

==Lists of craters==
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* [[List of impact craters on Earth]]
* [[List of possible impact structures on Earth]]
* [[List of craters on Mercury]]
* [[List of craters on the Moon]]
* [[List of craters on Mars]]
* [[List of craters on Venus]]
* [[Phobos (moon)#Features|List of geological features on Phobos]]
* [[List of craters on Europa]]
* [[List of craters on Ganymede]]
* [[List of craters on Callisto]]
* [[List of geological features on Mimas]]
* [[List of geological features on Enceladus]]
* [[List of geological features on Tethys]]
* [[List of geological features on Dione]]
* [[List of geological features on Rhea]]
* [[List of geological features on Iapetus]]
* [[List of geological features on Puck]]
* [[List of geological features on Miranda]]
* [[List of geological features on Ariel]]
* [[List of craters on Umbriel]]
* [[List of geological features on Titania]]
* [[List of geological features on Oberon]]
* [[List of craters on Triton]]
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===Impact craters on Earth===
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On Earth, the recognition of impact craters is a branch of geology, and is related to [[planetary geology]] in the study of other worlds. Out of many proposed craters, relatively few are confirmed. The following twenty are a sample of articles of confirmed and well-documented impact sites.

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* [[Barringer Crater]], a.k.a. Meteor Crater (Arizona, United States)
* [[Chesapeake Bay impact crater]] (Virginia, United States)
* [[Chicxulub Crater|Chicxulub, Extinction Event Crater]] (Mexico)
* [[Clearwater Lakes]] (Quebec, Canada)
* [[Gosses Bluff crater]] (Northern Territory, Australia)
* [[Haughton impact crater]] (Nunavut, Canada)
* [[Kaali crater]] (Estonia)
* [[Karakul (Tajikistan)|Karakul crater]] (Tajikistan)
* [[Lonar crater]] (India)
* [[Manicouagan Reservoir|Manicouagan impact structure]] (Quebec, Canada)
* [[Manson crater]] (Iowa, United States)
* [[Mistastin crater]] (Labrador, Canada)
* [[Nördlinger Ries]] (Germany)
* [[Pingualuit crater]] (Quebec, Canada)
* [[Popigai impact structure]], (Siberia, Russia)
* [[Shoemaker crater]] (Western Australia, Australia)
* [[Siljan Ring]] (Sweden)
* [[Sudbury Basin]] (Ontario, Canada)
* [[Vredefort impact structure]] (South Africa)
* [[Wolfe Creek Crater]] (Western Australia, Australia)
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See the [[Earth Impact Database]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase/essay.html|title=Planetary and Space Science Centre – UNB|website=unb.ca}}</ref> a website concerned with 190 ({{as of|2019|07|lc=y}}) scientifically confirmed impact craters on Earth.

===Some extraterrestrial craters===
[[File:Balanchine crater in Caloris Basin.jpg|thumb|[[Balanchine (crater)|Balanchine]] crater in Caloris Basin, photographed by ''[[MESSENGER]]'', 2011]]

* [[Caloris Basin]] (Mercury)
* [[Hellas Basin]] (Mars)
* [[Herschel (Mimantean crater)|Herschel crater]] (Mimas)
* [[Mare Orientale]] (Moon)
* [[Petrarch crater]] (Mercury)
* [[South Pole – Aitken basin]] (Moon)

===Largest named craters in the Solar System===
[[File:PIA09819 Tirawa basin.jpg|thumb|[[Tirawa (crater)|Tirawa crater]] straddling the [[terminator (solar)|terminator]] on [[Rhea (moon)|Rhea]], lower right.]]

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# [[North Polar Basin (Mars)|North Polar Basin/Borealis Basin]] (disputed) – Mars – Diameter: 10,600&nbsp;km
# [[South Pole-Aitken basin]] – Moon – Diameter: 2,500&nbsp;km
# [[Hellas Basin]] – Mars – Diameter: 2,100&nbsp;km
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# [[Caloris Basin]] – Mercury – Diameter: 1,550&nbsp;km
# [[Sputnik Planitia]] – Pluto – Diameter: 1,300&nbsp;km
# [[Mare Imbrium|Imbrium Basin]] – Moon – Diameter: 1,100&nbsp;km
# [[Isidis Planitia]] – Mars – Diameter: 1,100&nbsp;km
# [[Mare Tranquilitatis]] – Moon – Diameter: 870&nbsp;km
# [[Argyre Planitia]] – Mars – Diameter: 800&nbsp;km
# [[Rembrandt (crater)|Rembrandt]] – Mercury – Diameter: 715&nbsp;km
# [[Mare Serenitatis|Serenitatis Basin]] – Moon – Diameter: 700&nbsp;km
# [[Mare Nubium]] – Moon – Diameter: 700&nbsp;km
# [[Beethoven (crater)|Beethoven]] – Mercury – Diameter: 625&nbsp;km
# [[Valhalla (crater)|Valhalla]] – Callisto – Diameter: 600&nbsp;km, with rings to 4,000&nbsp;km diameter
# [[Hertzsprung (crater)|Hertzsprung]] – Moon – Diameter: 590&nbsp;km
# [[Turgis (crater)|Turgis]] – Iapetus – Diameter: 580&nbsp;km
# [[Apollo (crater)|Apollo]] – Moon – Diameter: 540&nbsp;km
# [[Engelier (crater)|Engelier]] – Iapetus – Diameter: 504&nbsp;km
# [[Mamaldi (crater)|Mamaldi]] – Rhea – Diameter: 480&nbsp;km
# [[Huygens (crater)|Huygens]] – Mars – Diameter: 470&nbsp;km
# [[Schiaparelli (Martian crater)|Schiaparelli]] – Mars – Diameter: 470&nbsp;km
# [[Rheasilvia]] – 4 Vesta – Diameter: 460&nbsp;km
# [[Gerin (crater)|Gerin]] – Iapetus – Diameter: 445&nbsp;km
# [[Odysseus (crater)|Odysseus]] – Tethys – Diameter: 445&nbsp;km
# [[Korolev (lunar crater)|Korolev]] – Moon – Diameter: 430&nbsp;km
# [[Falsaron (crater)|Falsaron]] – Iapetus – Diameter: 424&nbsp;km
# [[Dostoevskij (crater)|Dostoevskij]] – Mercury – Diameter: 400&nbsp;km
# [[Menrva (crater)|Menrva]] – Titan – Diameter: 392&nbsp;km
# [[Tolstoj (crater)|Tolstoj]] – Mercury – Diameter: 390&nbsp;km
# [[Goethe (crater)|Goethe]] – Mercury – Diameter: 380&nbsp;km
# [[Malprimis (crater)|Malprimis]] – Iapetus – Diameter: 377&nbsp;km
# [[Tirawa (crater)|Tirawa]] – Rhea – Diameter: 360&nbsp;km
# [[Mare Orientale|Orientale Basin]] – Moon – Diameter: 350&nbsp;km, with rings to 930&nbsp;km diameter
# [[Evander (crater)|Evander]] – Dione – Diameter: 350&nbsp;km
# [[Epigeus (crater)|Epigeus]] – Ganymede – Diameter: 343&nbsp;km
# [[Gertrude (crater)|Gertrude]] – Titania – Diameter: 326&nbsp;km
# [[Telemus (crater)|Telemus]] – Tethys – Diameter: 320&nbsp;km
# [[Asgard (crater)|Asgard]] – Callisto – Diameter: 300&nbsp;km, with rings to 1,400&nbsp;km diameter
# [[Vredefort impact structure]] – Earth – Diameter: 300&nbsp;km
# [[Burney (crater)|Burney]] – Pluto – Diameter: 296&nbsp;km
There are approximately twelve more impact craters/basins larger than 300&nbsp;km on the Moon, five on Mercury, and four on Mars.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/|title=Planetary Names: Welcome|website=planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov}}</ref> Large basins, some unnamed but mostly smaller than 300&nbsp;km, can also be found on Saturn's moons Dione, Rhea and Iapetus.