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Hoba is a tabular body of metal, measuring 2.7×2.7×0.9 m (8 ft 10 in×8 ft 10 in×2 ft 11 in). In 1920, its mass was estimated at 66 tonnes. Erosion, scientific sampling and vandalism reduced its bulk over the years. The remaining mass is estimated at just over 64 tonnes. The meteorite is composed of about 84% iron and 16% nickel, with traces ...
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 .
Canyon Diablo. / 35.050°N 111.033°W / 35.050; -111.033. The Canyon Diablo meteorite refers to the many fragments of the asteroid that created Meteor Crater (also called Barringer Crater), [3] Arizona, United States. Meteorites have been found around the crater rim, and are named for nearby Canyon Diablo, which lies about three to four ...
The sample is apparently five billion years old and weighs 300 pounds. Earth itself is approximately 4.6 billion years old, meaning that the meteorite that crashed into present-day Arizona came ...
the Uwet meteorite of Cross River State, Nigeria. the Sikhote-Alin meteorite, Sikhote-Alin Mountains, Russia. the Hex River Mountains meteorite from the Cape Winelands District, Western Cape Province, South Africa. the Canyon Diablo meteorite of Meteor Crater, Coconino County, Arizona, United States. the Smithonia meteorite of Oglethorpe County ...
O'Neill Crater; Old Caves Crater; Pinnacle Crater; Rattlesnake Crater; Robinson Crater was named for Henry H. Robinson, a United States Geological Survey researcher. Roden Crater is an extinct volcano crater, and a project of artist James Turrell. S P Crater is a cinder cone volcano 25 miles (40 km) north of Flagstaff, Arizona. Saddle Crater
Harvey Harlow Nininger (January 17, 1887 – March 1, 1986) was an American meteoriticist and educator. Although he was self-taught, he revived interest in scientific study of meteorites in the 1930s and assembled the largest personal collection of meteorites up to that time. In 1942 Nininger founded the American Meteorite Museum, which was ...
Known for. Meteorite. Scientific career. Fields. Geology. Daniel Barringer (May 25, 1860 – November 30, 1929) was a geologist best known as the first person to prove the existence of an impact crater on the Earth, Meteor Crater in Arizona. The site has been renamed the Barringer Crater in his honor, which is the preferred name used in the ...