Meteor Crater
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Meteor Crater, or Barringer Crater, is an impact crater about 37 mi east of Flagstaff and 18 mi west of Winslow in the desert of northern Arizona, United States. The site had several earlier names, an
Meteor Crater
The Holsinger fragment, at roughly 2.6 ft (0.8 m) across, is the largest discovered piece of the meteorite that created Meteor Crater, and it is exhibited in the crater visitor center.
Looking into the crater from the north rim: The rust-colored area on the far (south) rim is where the last drilling for the meteorite occurred, in 1929. This is where Daniel M. Barringer believed the bulk of the meteorite was buried. Rock around the south rim is visibly uplifted.
Fragment of the Canyon Diablo meteorite
Impact crater
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An impact crater is a depression in the surface of a solid astronomical body formed by the hypervelocity impact of a smaller object. In contrast to volcanic craters, which result from explosion or int
500-kilometre-wide (310 mi) crater Engelier on Saturn's moon Iapetus
Recently formed (between July 2010 and May 2012) impact crater on Mars showing a pristine ray system of ejecta
50,000-year-old Meteor Crater east of Flagstaff, Arizona, U.S. on Earth
Eugene Shoemaker, pioneer impact crater researcher, here at a crystallographic microscope used to examine meteorites