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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 .
Arizona: 1.19 0.049 ± 0.003 ... Decorah crater: Iowa: 5.6 470 million ... Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML;
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]
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.
Old Caves Crater; 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 ...
A man planning a camping trip using Google Maps ran across a uniquely curved spherical pit in Quebec. It may be an ancient asteroid impact crater. A Camper Was Playing With Google Maps—and ...
The news about the discovery of the world’s largest asteroid impact crater is huge, if true—323-miles-in-diameter huge.. Researchers at University New South Wales (UNSW) believe they’ve ...
The Decorah crater has been conjectured as being part of the Ordovician meteor event. [ 348 ] [ better source needed ] Several twin impacts have been proposed, such as the Rubielos de la Cérida and Azuara (30–40 Ma), [ 349 ] Cerro Jarau and Piratininga (c. 117 Ma), [ 73 ] and Warburton East and West (300–360 Ma). [ 350 ]