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Barringer Crater

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Barringer Crater

Impact crater near Winslow in Arizona, caused by the impact of a 50-m/165-ft iron meteorite about 50,000 years ago. It is 1.2 km/0.7 mi in diameter and 200 m/660 ft deep, and the walls are raised 50-60 m/165-198 ft above the surrounding desert.

It is named after the US mining engineer Daniel Barringer who proposed in 1902 that it was an impact crater rather than a volcanic feature, an idea confirmed in the 1960s by US astronomer Eugene Shoemaker, who studied the crater for his doctoral research at the California Institute of Technology.



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This hole, known as Barringer Crater, was carved out when a meteorite (space rock that has hit Earth) crashed into Earth about 50,000 years ago.
Crash course? Scientists wonder if a space rock could destroy life on ... by Honovich, Nancy / Science World
Noting that some giant tortoises have lived for more than 150 years, Wells illustrates that a good many other things live to be far older still such as California's giant sequoia trees who grow to be 3,000 years old While Arizona's Barringer Crater was made about 49,000 years ago, and that the the dinosaur dominated the Earth more than 65 million years ago.
What's Older than a Giant Tortoise? by Children's Bookwatch
Arizona's Meteor Crater--also known as Barringer Crater, after the Philadelphia mining engineer who began studying the site in 1902--is the best-preserved terrestrial example of such a so-called simple crater.
Presto, change-O! Extraterrestrial impacts transform Earth's surface ... by Perkins, Sid / Science News
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