Steinheim crater [SEP] located in the administrative territorial entity
Steinheim crater
The Steinheim crater is a meteorite crater in Steinheim am Albuch, Heidenheim County, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The crater is located at the northeastern end of the Swabian Alb near the much larger (24 km diameter) Nördlinger Ries crater and was most probably formed simultaneously with it by the oblique, ENE directed impact of a double asteroid, and which may have produced several craters.
It is 3.8 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be 15 ± 1 million years (Miocene)
ejecta resembling a mudflow.
Another impact crater, the much smaller (3.8 km diameter) Steinheim crater, is located about west-southwest from the centre of Ries. The two craters are believed to have formed nearly simultaneously by the impact of a binary asteroid.
Recent computer modeling of the impact event indicates that the impactors probably had diameters of about (Ries) and (Steinheim), had a pre-impact separation of some tens of kilometers, and impacted the target area at an angle around 30 to