Great Meteor Crater - Barringer Meteorite Crater
USA /
Arizona /
Winslow West /
World
/ USA
/ Arizona
/ Winslow West
World / United States / Arizona
impact crater, interesting place, tourist attraction, National Natural Landmark
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The Barringer Meteorite Crater (also known as "Meteor Crater") is a gigantic hole in the middle of the arid sandstone of the Arizona desert. A rim of smashed and jumbled boulders, some of them the size of small houses, rises 150 feet above the level of the surrounding plain. The crater itself is nearly a mile wide, and 570 feet deep.
When Europeans first discovered the crater, the plain around it was covered with chunks of meteoritic iron - over 30 tons of it, scattered over an area 8 to 10 miles in diameter.
Between the 1880's and the 1920's scientists debated if the cause was volcanic or meteoric.
Scientists now believe that the crater was created approximately 50,000 years ago. The meteorite which made it was composed almost entirely of nickel-iron, suggesting that it may have originated in the interior of a small planet. It was 150 feet across, weighed roughly 300,000 tons, and was traveling at a speed of 28,600 miles per hour (12 kilometers per second) according to the most recent research. The explosion created by its impact was equal to 2.5 megatons of TNT, or about 150 times the force of the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima (15 killotons).
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap971117.html
www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=12&n=3876144&e=497891&datum=...
Meteor Crater, USGS Meteor Crater (AZ) Topo Map
35.0280°N, 111.0231°W (WGS84/NAD83)
The Barringer Meteorite Crater (also known as "Meteor Crater") is a gigantic hole in the middle of the arid sandstone of the Arizona desert. A rim of smashed and jumbled boulders, some of them the size of small houses, rises 150 feet above the level of the surrounding plain. The crater itself is nearly a mile wide, and 570 feet deep.
When Europeans first discovered the crater, the plain around it was covered with chunks of meteoritic iron - over 30 tons of it, scattered over an area 8 to 10 miles in diameter.
Between the 1880's and the 1920's scientists debated if the cause was volcanic or meteoric.
Scientists now believe that the crater was created approximately 50,000 years ago. The meteorite which made it was composed almost entirely of nickel-iron, suggesting that it may have originated in the interior of a small planet. It was 150 feet across, weighed roughly 300,000 tons, and was traveling at a speed of 28,600 miles per hour (12 kilometers per second) according to the most recent research. The explosion created by its impact was equal to 2.5 megatons of TNT, or about 150 times the force of the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima (15 killotons).
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap971117.html
www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=12&n=3876144&e=497891&datum=...
Meteor Crater, USGS Meteor Crater (AZ) Topo Map
35.0280°N, 111.0231°W (WGS84/NAD83)
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 35°1'37"N 111°1'22"W
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