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Located in Baden-Wurttemberg 70 km E of Stuttgart, the Steinheim crater is believed to be formed simultaneously with the 40 km far at ENE Ries structure due to the impact of a binary asteroid or to the split in two pieces of a single body, with ENE direction.
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Staffieri, S., Coletta, A., Battagliere, M.L., Virelli, M. (2019). Steinheim, Germany. 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_115
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