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Meteor Crater on Earth, Wanni

Meteor Crater on Earth

Meteor Crater on Earth, Wanni

Meteor Crater on Earth

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This is a Picture I made, standing at the Rim of the "Meteor Crater" or "Barringer Crater", back in January 1998.

The Crater is located at the northern part of Arizona.

The Crater has a diameter of 1.2 Km and is about 180 m deep.

It was caused by the impact of an estimated 50 m Meteorite 50000 years ago.

If we would take our Telescopes to the Moon, we could hardly detect it. (a few pixels maybe).

But if you stay at the Rim of this Crater, it is pretty impressive and huge.

If there would be a person right down at the centre of the crater, it would be almost impossible to see anybody by the naked eye.

The Crater originally was sold to Mr. Barringer ,who expected to find a huge piece of Iron, but the

Iron, in fact, was powdered by the impact energy.

Now one can buy sand/iron powder at the Museums shop.

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