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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 .
This list includes all 60 confirmed impact structures in North America in the Earth Impact Database (EID). These features were caused by the collision of large meteorites or comets with the Earth. For eroded or buried craters, the stated diameter typically refers to an estimate of original rim diameter, and may not correspond to present surface ...
The EID lists fewer than ten such craters, and the largest in the last 100,000 years (100 ka) is the 4.5 km (2.8 mi) Rio Cuarto crater in Argentina. [2] However, there is some uncertainty regarding its origins [ 3 ] and age, with some sources giving it as < 10 ka [ 2 ] [ 4 ] while the EID gives a broader < 100 ka.
A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth.The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of ...
"Holsinger Meteorite", the biggest recovered fragment of the Canyon Diablo meteorite Example of a small (90mm) fragment of the meteorite. The biggest fragment ever found is the Holsinger Meteorite, weighing 639 kilograms (1,409 lb), now on display in the Meteor Crater Visitor Center on the rim of the crater. Other famous fragments: 485 ...
A massive asteroid, spanning more than two miles across, has just made its closest approach to Earth in decades - but its spectacle isn’t over yet.. The asteroid, named (887) Alinda, will reach ...
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 ...
These estimates make 2024 YR 4 around the same size as the asteroid that caused the 1908 Tunguska event or the asteroid that created the Meteor Crater in Arizona. [11] The mass and density of 2024 YR 4 have not been measured, but can be estimated with an assumed density. NASA estimates a mass of 2.2 × 10 8 kg for an assumed density of 2.6 g/cm ...