Hard to believe but is likely only a coincidence that these two Canadian Craters are near to each other

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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.

This is to introduce you to the 2021 Barringer Lecture Award Recipient at the 2021 Meteorological Society Conference: Leslie Rogers.

Hard to think something so remote, distant and rare will actually land somewhere someone will see, but just last month a meteorite crashed through a roof and landed on someone’s bed in Canada!

Don’t miss free admission for locals, on Saturday October 23

NASA will launch on October 16 the First spacecraft to explore Jupiter’s orbiting asteroids, and LIVE coverage begins at 5am EDT on NASA TV (or the app or on all NASA social media)

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.

The annual Field Training and Research Program at Meteor Crater an LPI-JSC Center for Lunar Science and Exploration, with NASA collaboration, is a week long field class and research project based at Barringer Meteorite Crater, Arizona

The on-site museum features a plaque dedicated to Eugene Shoemaker who was the first to prove the Meteoric origin of Barringer Meteor Crater in 1963, and was awarded the Barringer Medal in 1984. Read the Barringer story here.

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

NASA has announced the 2009 WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) Space Telescope has a new mission and a new name: NEOWISE (Near Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer)!