|
|
||
|
Meteor Crater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
|
||
|
49,000 years ago, however, a large meteor created Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, pictured above. Barringer is over a kilometer across. In 1920, it was the first feature on Earth to be recognized as an impact crater. ... Barringer Crater on Earth ; Credit: D. Roddy (LPI)
|
||
|
49,000 years ago, however, a large meteor created Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, pictured above. Barringer is over a kilometer across. In 1920, it was the first feature on Earth to be recognized as an impact crater. ... Barringer Crater on Earth ; Credit: D. Roddy (LPI)
|
||
|
This picture shows the Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, a crater slightly more than a kilometer across which scientists believe was made by a meteorite approximately 49,000 years ago ... Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona.
|
||
|
23. Bryan, J. B., Burton, D.E. and Lettis,L.A.Jr., Calculational comparisons of explosion and impact cratering in two dimensions using Barringer crater as a prototype (abstract). Lunar and Planetary Science X, pp. 159-161. 1979.
|
||
|
The Barringer Crater, also known as the Meteor Crater, is a famous impact crater created by a meteorite, located about 55 kilometers east of Flagstaff in the northern Arizona desert (USA). Its coordinates are 35°1'38"N 111°1'22"
|
||
|
March 10, 2005—Call it the mystery of the nonmelting meteorite: For decades scientists have wondered how a meteorite powerful enough to have made Arizona's Barringer Meteor Crater (pictured) could have left hardly any melted rock in its wake.
|
Copyright © 2009, Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.