Articles tagged: Barringer Crater

• June 2014 Preventing catastrophic impact

  ... In the state of Arizona in the USA lies the Barringer Crater, which measures some 1.3km across and is 170 metres deep... 2007: an explosion near the village of Carancas in Peru caused a crater with a diameter of 30 metres and six metres deep; • 15 ...

  • Anatoly V Zaitsev
  • asteroid collision
  • Barringer Crater
  • Near Earth Objects
  • Planetary Defence Centre
  Authors: Anatoly V. Zaitsev    
• September 2016 URBOCOP: saving planet Earth

  ...to global, regional and local catastrophes. Meteor Crater, the world’s best preserved meteorite impact site... The Arizona and Tunguska meteorites are examples of such events. The Barringer crater, for example, is located in the state of Arizona and has...

  • Article
  • Igor Ashurbeyli
  • space threats
  • URBOCOP
  Authors: Igor Ashurbeyli    
• December 2014 Finding NEO

  Looking at the surface of our Earth, we can see scars of ancient impacts from asteroids in places like Barringer crater in Arizona or Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan. Within the past 100 years, the Earth has seen a meteorite explode in the air...

  • Chelyabinsk meteorite
  • Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
  • Near Earth Objects
  • potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs)
  • Sentry
  Authors: Lynne Jones     Mario Juric     Zeljko Ivezic