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The Haviland Crater, also called the Brenham Crater, is a meteorite crater in Kiowa County, Kansas. [1] [2] The oval crater is 50 feet (15 m) in diameter, making it one of the smallest impact craters in the world. Its age is estimated to be less than 1000 years. [3] It has been explored with ground-penetrating radar. [4]
The 38th parallel structures, also known as the 38th parallel lineament, [1] are a series of seven circular depressions or deformations stretching 700 kilometres (430 mi) across southern Illinois and Missouri and into eastern Kansas, in the United States, at a latitude of roughly 38 degrees north.
These features were caused by the collision of large meteorites or comets with the Earth. ... Kansas: 0.015 < 0.001 ... Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap.
As six major meteor showers remain or are set to peak by the end of 2024, here's how those in central Kansas can have the best views.
This year, the meteor showers are active between Nov. 19 and Dec. 24. During its peak, 120 meteors can be seen per hour under perfect conditions. They are bright, fast and tend to be yellowish or ...
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Brenham [1] is a pallasite meteorite found near Haviland, a small town in Kiowa County, Kansas, United States. Pallasites are a type of stony–iron meteorite that when cut and polished show yellowish olivine (peridot) crystals. The Brenham meteorite is associated with the Haviland Crater.
After a brilliant fireball and a loud noise, a very large shower of meteorites fell over a large area of Norton County and Furnas County on February 18, 1948. On April 28, a research team from the University of New Mexico set out to identify and recover pieces of the meteorite. Everything that they recovered was either donated to or sold to the ...