(CBS) STOCKTON An amazing discovery was made by scientists who think they found a meteorite the size of a small town!

They were looking for oil but instead found space dust and a possible mammoth meteorite. The possible meteorite is buried deep in the ground about ten miles west of Stockton in an area called Victoria Island.

Scientist believe the meteorite is buried. nearly a mile underground on some farmland.

3-D images show that the circular crater created by the rock is estimated to have been about 3 miles wide. The meteorite is also believed to have fallen to earth over 50 million years ago.

The impact would have been as powerful as 100-thousand atomic bomb blasts and would have been seen and heard for hundreds of miles.

Scientists will be back at the site to try to collect more samples and someday possibly get a piece of the meteorite itself.

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I think this is weird is because I'm from Stockton, I am from a town that was once hit by a MASSIVE meteor. Figures.