The History Channel’s “Ancient Aliens” program discusses asteroids and meteorites which brought both destruction and life supporting precious elements to this planet!

Barringer Meteor Crater is beautifully preserved in the high Arizona desert landscape, but when it was formed the scenery was quite different!

Come see the most amazing well preserved Meteor Crater in any season!

The Lake Bosumtwi (also called Bosomtwe) is an impact crater in Ghana, a 10 km wide crater from only roughly 2 million years ago, is now a beautiful and scenic visit.

You too can visit this 370lb fragment of meteorite from the crater which made its way to Wesleyan University’s Van Vleck Observatory Library in 1897! I wonder how far flung are other fragments?

Barringer Meteorite Crater is one of the youngest, and due age and location, it is one of the most well preserved impact craters on earth!

While Barringer Meteor Crater may be the best preserved Meteor Crater in the US, and often the primary example of impact craters, the Chesapeake Bay is the largest in the country.

Stose Crater: Named after Anna Jonas Stose, who was a pioneering geologist who studied in Philadelphia and elsewhere.

Henson Crater: Named after Matthew Henson who, with Peary, was the first documented explorer to reach the north pole.

Unnamed lunar craters are being named after notable women and minority scientists in an effort to recognize the crucial importance of both women and underrepresented groups to the fields of scientific exploration.

From this suspended platform, you see the whole thing at once!

Likely the local people were made well aware of this impact in Australia, roughly 5400 years ago, while the continent was widely populated.

Ever wonder how many or where they all are? This database allows you to easily see the locations and size as well as pop up data on all the verified known impact sites on earth!

One of the largest and oldest known impact site on earth is located in what is now South Africa, and due to the extreme deformation conditions, dramatic evidence of the “rebound dome” is still clearly visible by satellite.

The 4th largest known impact crater on earth is found in Siberia, called the Popigai Crater- where the diamonds which formed 36 million years ago upon impact have been mined for industrial use.

Tenoumer Crater in the Mauritanian Saharan Desert is younger, slightly larger, and is compared to Barringer Meteorite Crater

What a hit- Australia was hit by a comet originating from the Kuiper belt, and the world felt earthquakes caused by the impact 142.5 million years ago.

Even after Global Plate Tectonics and 400Million years, this lake stands out starkly from the surrounding tundra in the Northwest Territories of Canada.

Its summer and the sun is shining over the dramatic Barringer Meteorite Crater: come see for yourself!

Visitor information HERE

It is fascinating to discover so many magnificent views of craters caused by meteorites! Here’s a beautiful example of a crater, located in India, roughly the same age as Barringer Meteorite Crater