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Odessa is the largest of a group of five meteorite craters located in W Texas, 60 km from the border with New Mexico, 14 km SW of the city of Odessa.

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Flamini, E., Coletta, A., Battagliere, M.L., Virelli, M. (2019). Odessa, USA. In: Flamini, E., Di Martino, M., Coletta, A. (eds) Encyclopedic Atlas of Terrestrial Impact Craters. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05451-9_161

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