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World's 1st mountaintop impact crater discovered in northeastern China
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A crater in northeastern China is the first confirmed mountaintop crater on Earth .
Researchers aren't sure when the impact happened, but it split the mountain into two peaks.
Rocks on the peaks bear the telltale shock patterns of an impact with a space object.
The granite that makes up the crater formed between 150 million and 172 million years ago .
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