 According to experts investigating cataclysmic occurrences and by analyzing sediments jolted by ground shaking, researchers have shown that two impact craters near Stuttgart were created by independent asteroid impacts rather than a binary asteroid strike. A gothic church now rises above the medieval town, but unlike most churches, St. George's is composed of a very special type of rock, Sauvite, a coarse granite breccia that's formed only in powerful impacts. That discovery and other lines of evidence have helped researchers determine that Nordlinghen lies within an impact crater. Now scientists have unearthed evidence that this crater and another one just 40 miles away were formed by a double disaster or two independent asteroid impacts. That revises a previous theory that these features are the relics of a one-two cosmic punch from a pair of gravitational bound asteroids striking Earth simultaneously. Our planet is dotted with nearly 200 confirmed impact structures and a handful of them appear in close pairs. Some researchers have proposed that these apparent double craters are scars created by binary asteroids slamming into Earth at the same time. However, scientists have theoretically determined that the binary asteroid scenario is unlikely. That's because most binary asteroids are orbiting one another too closely to produce two distinct craters where they just slam into a rocky body. A geologist at Newell University of Applied Science in Germany have investigated the province of two impact craters near Stuttgart using observational data. They focused on the Veus Crater which encompasses the town of Nordlinghen and the 4 km diameter Steinhaim Basin which are located roughly 40 miles from one another. The Veus Crater is thought to have formed about 14.8 million years ago during the Mayasean Epic. Argon-40 Argon-39 age dating has revealed. The age of the Steinhaim Basin hasn't been conclusively measured but some researchers have suggested that it formed contemporaneously. It was nearly dogma in Germany that this must be the result of a double impact at the same time. The region witnessed a double disaster in the middle of Mayasean, the team concluded in their paper, which was published just recently in scientific reports. If you only have so much terrain and you keep adding craters, eventually two are going to be very close to one another, just by chance even, but what do you guys think about this? Comments below and as always, thank you for watching.