The crater it left behind is about 3,900 feet long and 560 feet deep. Meteor Crater, also known as Barringer Crater, is located about 37 miles east of Flagstaff and 18 miles west of Winslow in ...
Researchers discovered the crater this year, noting its unique oval shape and uneven sides. It's unclear exactly when the meteor struck, but Chen and his colleagues say the event probably occurred ...
Researchers discovered the crater this year, noting its unique oval shape and uneven sides. The meteor impact that blew out the crater was a "nuclear explosion level" event, Ming Chen, a staff ...
It took a whole thousand years for the Germans to realize that their beloved Nordlingen stood in a meteor crater. Until 1960, they thought it was a volcanic crater. This theory was disproved by two ...
It finally gained real traction in 1960, when Eugene Shoemaker showed that — in sharp contrast to the surrounding volcanic terrain in northern Arizona — the famed Meteor Crater (or Barringer ...
A crater on the surface of Mars was recently named in honor of Nadine Barlow, a former chair of the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences at Northern Arizona University (NAU). The U.S ...