Barringer Meteorite Crater, Arizona

A slow 360 panorama of Meteorite Crater located near Flagstaff Arizona. The Barringer Meteorite Crater (also known as "Meteor Crater") is a gigantic hole in the middle of the arid sandstone of the Arizona desert. The crater itself is nearly a mile wide, and 570 feet deep.

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[Hailo3331]

where does the metorite particles go? shouldnt part of the metorite be there?

[Fakeblad]

Chuck Norris related joke here

[woblegoble]

@boipinoi604 scientists believe that It wasn't strong enough to have caused a mass extinction. During this time mammals such as mammoths and sloths lived, so any that roomed with in a 500miles approx. radius would have been wiped out from the blast.

[boipinoi604]

@woblegoble Interesting. Would something that big cause a massive instinction?

[woblegoble]

@boipinoi604 this crater is quiet recent and the second most preserved impact crater, this one occurred around 45,000 years ago and judging by its size wouldn't have caused mass extenuation. Some craters are over 100k in size and can only been seen properly from space. They don't look anything like this one because they are much older and have eroded over time.

[woblegoble]

@Hailo3331 most of the meteorite disintegrated on impact, only small fragments of the iron rock remained and have been discovered one piece was 600kg. All of the other remains would have melted on impact. The craters are usually much larger than the rocks themselves it only makes sense that something travelling fast enough to enter our atmosphere and reach our surface would create such large craters. So it does look deceiving that nothing is left.

[narib414]

@Fakeblad chuck norris farted

[Hailo3331]

@peninha1961 if it was a bomb, there would be all black burnt rocks and dirt

[peninha1961]

@Hailo3331 May be it`s a bomb crater...

[toAdmiller]

@Them0uzer It's hard to get the idea of its size from a pic/vid. It's 1,200 m (4,000 ft) in diameter, some 170 m deep (570 ft). You really get the idea of its size by hiking around it (I did it twice before they forbad it). I also proposed to my wife of 13 yrs. there: "It took a huge rock to make an impression like this, and I think the huge impression you've made on my life deserves a big rock." Peace

[boipinoi604]

@speedyrevolution 1891? I would guess it's been there millions of years.. something that big would cause massive extinction.

[synawat]

been there. bad ass.