He spent 27 years trying to locate a large deposit of meteoric iron, and drilled to a depth of 1,375 ft (419 m) but no significant deposit was ever found. The crater was created instantly when a 50-meter (164-foot), 150,000-ton meteorite slammed into the desert about 50,000 years ago. Diamond Head stands at an elevation of 762 feet above sea level. [14] Impact energy has been estimated at about 10 megatons TNTe. Spend a day on a snorkeling tour as you … Our maps show the terrain at the limit the human eye can perceive. We use the highest resolution data and the most detailed printing techniques to produce a more detailed map. [25], In November 1891, Grove Karl Gilbert, chief geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey, investigated the crater and concluded that it was the result of a volcanic steam explosion. Its capital is Phoenix which happens to be the largest city in this state. Guided tours of the rim are offered daily, weather permitting. 1985. [23], In 1891, the mineralogist Albert E. Foote presented the first scientific paper about the meteorites of Northern Arizona. The crater was given several early names including "Coon Mountain," "Coon Butte," "Crater Mountain," "Meteor Mountain," and "Meteor Crater. "[39], Harvey Harlow Nininger was an American meteoriticist and educator, and 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. [3], Meteor Crater lies at an elevation of 5,640 ft (1,719 m) above sea level. 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The crater is an impressive sight with a diameter of approximately 4,000-feet and a depth of 560-ft. [44] To this day, Nininger is omitted from any display or reference at the privately-owned museum located on the crater rim. Southgate, Nancy; Barringer, Felicity (2002). The speed of the impact has been a subject of some debate. The crater encompasses 350 acres. [30] This new post office was located at Sunshine, a stop on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway six miles north of the crater. The lack of erosion that preserved the crater's shape helped lead to this crater being the first crater recognized as an impact crater from a natural celestial body. The cinder cone volcano's rim is the dusky red of sunset, but the crater is only part of the story. One of the best-known craters on Earth is Meteor Crater, near Winslow, Arizona. While based in Denver, Colorado, Nininger published the first edition of a pamphlet titled A Comet Strikes the Earth, which described how Meteor Crater formed when an asteroid impacted the Earth. [48][49] Specifically, climbing the rim of the crater from outside, one finds: Soils around the crater are brown, slightly to moderately alkaline gravelly or stony loam of the Winona series; on the crater rim and in the crater itself the Winona is mapped in a complex association with Rock Outcrop. Foote immediately recognized the rock as a meteorite and led an expedition to search and retrieve additional meteorite samples. Arizona is a state in the United States of America.It is considered part of the Southwestern United States and is bordered by New Mexico to the east, Utah to the north, Nevada to the northwest, California to the west, its northeast corner touches part of Colorado, this area is known as the Four Corners.To the south of Arizona is the country Mexico with which it shares a border of … (1906). Roden Crater is a cinder cone type of volcanic cone from an extinct volcano, with a remaining interior volcanic crater. [31], Standard Iron Company conducted research on the crater's origins between 1903 and 1905. [54], In 2006, a project called METCRAX (for METeor CRAter eXperiment) investigated "the diurnal buildup and breakdown of basin temperature inversions or cold air pools and the associated physical and dynamical processes accounting for their evolving structure and morphology. He persisted and sought to bolster his theory by locating the remains of the meteorite. [25] Gilbert had assumed that if it were an impact crater then the volume of the crater, as well as meteoritic material, should be extant in the rim. "[55][56], Meteor Crater is a popular tourist attraction privately owned by the Barringer family through the Barringer Crater Company, with an admission fee charged to see the crater. Some Facts About Arizona [12][13], The object that excavated the crater was a nickel-iron meteorite about 160 feet (50 meters) across. [28][29][22] The claim was divided into four quadrants coming from the center clockwise from north-west named Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.