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Meteor Crater, or Barringer Crater, is an impact crater about 37 mi (60 km) east of Flagstaff and 18 mi (29 km) west of Winslow in the desert of northern Arizona, United States. The site had several earlier names, and fragments of the meteorite are officially called the Canyon Diablo Meteorite , after the adjacent Canyon Diablo .
The Canyon Diablo meteorite refers to the many fragments of the asteroid that created Meteor Crater (also called Barringer Crater), [3] Arizona, United States.Meteorites have been found around the crater rim, and are named for nearby Canyon Diablo, which lies about three to four miles west of the crater.
This list includes all 60 confirmed impact structures in North America in the Earth Impact Database (EID). These features were caused by the collision of large meteorites or comets with the Earth. For eroded or buried craters, the stated diameter typically refers to an estimate of original rim diameter, and may not correspond to present surface ...
The world-famous Meteor Crater and Barringer Space Museum in Arizona is a stunning natural wonder, with a wealth of interesting stops along the way.
The key in declaring the site a meteorite impact crater centers around the existence of shatter cones, basically branch-like cracks in the bedrock. “Those are essentially unequivocal evidence of ...
Pinnacle Crater; Rattlesnake Crater; Robinson Crater was named for Henry H. Robinson, a United States Geological Survey researcher. [2] Roden Crater is an extinct volcano crater, and a project of artist James Turrell. [3] S P Crater is a cinder cone volcano 25 miles (40 km) north of Flagstaff, Arizona. [4] Saddle Crater; South Sheba Crater ...
Researchers located the world’s only mountaintop impact crater. A study of the shock pattern data in quartz minerals confirms that the impact was a meteor.
Daniel Barringer (May 25, 1860 – November 30, 1929) was a geologist best known as the first person to prove the existence of an impact crater on the Earth, Meteor Crater in Arizona. The site has been renamed the Barringer Crater in his honor, which is the preferred name used in the scientific community.