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Barringer Crater:

In Winslow Arizona. Barringer Crater:. Barringer Crater. 4,145 feet across 570 feet deep Known as the best preserved meteor crater in the world It was g oing 43,125 MPH 4x the size of the Atomic Bomb in Japan. History. In 1871, Europeans thought it was a collapsed volcano.

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Barringer Crater:

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  1. In Winslow Arizona Barringer Crater:

  2. Barringer Crater 4,145 feet across 570 feet deep Known as the best preserved meteor crater in the world It was going 43,125 MPH 4x the size of the Atomic Bomb in Japan

  3. History In 1871, Europeans thought it was a collapsed volcano. In 1902, Dr. Daniel Barringer determined that it was not a volcano because there were no volcanic rocks. Because of the 77,000-300,000 ton rocks speed towards earth it shattered into pieces.

  4. information It fell about 50,000 years ago. The meteor was made out of Nickel-Iron. Most of the meteor evaporated. This is a piece of the meteor:

  5. A Meteor Crater As Time Passes Right after Years after Long after

  6. comparison Visitor center, museum, and sky walk

  7. NASA now has a project to deflect meteors

  8. Dr. Daniel Barringer was a millionaire who spend all his time and money trying to show NASA that the crater was made by a meteor. • After he died another man proved that it was a meteor crater.

  9. THANK YOU FOR WATCHING MADE BY: KELLY THEKLEVERKELLY

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