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Ames crater is a meteorite crater (astrobleme) in Major County, Oklahoma, United States. Ames, Oklahoma is near the center of the structure, [1] which is 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Enid, Oklahoma. [2] Buried under a thick layer of sediment, it was not discovered until 1991. Subsequent drilling within the crater found a large amount of oil ...
Ames is a town in southeastern Major County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 239 at the 2010 census. This was a 20.1 percent increase from the figure of 199 in 2000. [4] Ames is best known for being located within the boundary of a geological structure that is called the Ames crater or the Ames Astrobleme. The Ames Astrobleme Museum ...
Name Location Diameter (km) Age (Ma/millions) Coordinates Ames: Oklahoma: 16 470 ± 30 Avak: Alaska: 12 < 95 Barringer: Arizona: 1.19 0.049 ± 0.003 Beaverhead
The meteor shower is a debris train trailing the Swift-Tuttle comet, a dirty snowball that completes its orbit around the sun every 133 years. From mid-July to early September, the Earth's orbital ...
The largest in the last one million years is the 14-kilometre (8.7 mi) Zhamanshin crater in Kazakhstan and has been described as being capable of producing a nuclear-like winter. [11] The source of the enormous Australasian strewnfield (c. 780 ka) is a currently undiscovered crater probably located in Southeast Asia. [12] [13]
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Buried object with ‘magnetic anomalies’ may be Utah-sized asteroid crater, study says. Brendan Rascius. August 11, 2023 at 6:56 PM. Photo from Joey Csunyo, UnSplash.
The meteorite that caused the impact crater is estimated to have been 170 m (560 ft) in diameter with a mass of 9 × 10 9 kg (2.0 × 10 10 lb) and impact velocity of 30 km/s (67,000 mph). The crater is 6 km (3.7 mi) in diameter, and fossils found in the rock filling the crater suggest it dates to the Middle Ordovician Period, about 455 to 430 ...