Barringer Meteorite Crater by Richardphotos

Photography • Landscape • posted on Feb 01, 2007

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several hand held captures to create this not very good collage.it was quite windy and hard to balance on a rock while shooting.I passed the place so many times and decided finally cold or not I was going to see it The Meteor Crater, sometimes known as the Barringer Crater and formerly as the Canyon Diablo crater, is an impact crater, located about 35 miles (55 km) east of Flagstaff, near Winslow in the northern Arizona desert (USA). Its elevation is 1744 m (5,723 ft). The crater is somewhat misnamed, as it was actually excavated by a meteorite, not a meteor. The crater is about 4,000 ft in width, and some 170 m deep (550 ft). It is surrounded by a 45 m (150 ft) high rim of rock, raised above the surrounding plains by the force of the impact. The bottom of the crater is filled with rubble from the impact, to a depth of 210-240 m (700-800 ft) below the crater's center.the circumference is 2.4 miles.if the Washington monument was placed inside the top would be eye level from the rim from Meteor Crater Enterprises thanks for viewing and comments attention: purchasers of Vista beware that Western Digital hard drives is not offering any drivers for Vista as of yet.what a bummer. both of my big external drives are WD

Comments (61)

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boobunny

4:14PM | Thu, 01 February 2007

Wow, that is very interesting. Glad you shared it!

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awadissk

4:20PM | Thu, 01 February 2007

Perfectly done work!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Syltermermaid

4:25PM | Thu, 01 February 2007

Wow, that looks fantastic!!! When you think about that such big rocks fly around and can do so many harm to our earth!!! It is very impressive!!! Thanks for sharing!! Hugs Ute

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rainbows

5:10PM | Thu, 01 February 2007

Incredible crater and capture, dear Richard!!! Superb photography, thank you for braving the cold for us all. I know you do not like cold... brrrr. Hugs and kisses Di.

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darktower

5:14PM | Thu, 01 February 2007

Fascinating!!! Thanks for the info!

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goodoleboy

5:37PM | Thu, 01 February 2007

Fine depth on this capture! I took several shots of the same crater when visiting Arizona back in October of 1988, when the weather was much nicer than what you experienced. The pictures are hiding somewhere in my closet, so I may dig them out, scan them into my computer, and then post them.

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Dinhi

5:48PM | Thu, 01 February 2007

Without a tripod and it is an amazing collection! Now, I would have never thought it was compiled of several shots! Excellent panorama, superb post work! [=

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drag

5:57PM | Thu, 01 February 2007

Very impressive and it does look quite chilly.

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redchilicat

6:20PM | Thu, 01 February 2007

Wow what an awesome panorama! I would love to see this in person.

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bpclarke

6:40PM | Thu, 01 February 2007

Impressive shot! I like panorama shots. They are a challenge. Bunny

XoxoTree

6:54PM | Thu, 01 February 2007

Stunning image. I love it. :)

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pops

7:41PM | Thu, 01 February 2007

Great photo-too bad you didn't find any little meteorite rocks-they are worth more than gold

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TheAnimaGemini

10:12PM | Thu, 01 February 2007

Fantastic shot. Great view. Excellent Richard.

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angel_dust

10:13PM | Thu, 01 February 2007

Amazeing job!!

MariaAJMD

10:37PM | Thu, 01 February 2007

What an awesome capture. This must have been amazing to see. Thanks for sharing and giving all the details about the crater! Outstanding photo! hugs Maria

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three_grrr

11:12PM | Thu, 01 February 2007

I've always wanted to go and see this thing! Still do, I envy you having it so close by! Fab panoraman! Can you go down inside the crater?

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MeredithWilson

12:51AM | Fri, 02 February 2007

Dear Richard, WOW! This is really cool!! I've never see it in snow - or even a picture in snow!!! What a neat shot!!! Or shots to create the panorama. I can't begin to image the mayhem it created when it him!!! Had to kick up dust into the upper atmosphere over the entire continent at least!! Could have taken some incredible sunsets if anyone had been around - and not too close!!! I found a blast calculator a while back that's pretty interesting. You should have some parameters from the Meteor Crater Enterprises info to play with this: http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/ Kind of interesting!!! I'll bet it was both windy and COLD taking these pictures!!!!! Thanks for showing them to us!!! Love ya!!! Meredith

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Hefrian_Rotter

1:31AM | Fri, 02 February 2007

Awful big hole. How big do they estimate the object that made this was?

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wildgoha

1:50AM | Fri, 02 February 2007

wow Richard - wonderful and something so wonderfully captured ! tht's super shot ! I am glad to see this - makes me dream about space ;)

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tallpindo

6:15AM | Fri, 02 February 2007

Work at it you will become a rover yet. I loved my WD hard drive in my Dimension b667r. It ran 24/7 for 4 years. Just looking at the Precisions which have only Express VISTA at this time. I did that with NT4 and Windows 2000 in 1999. Now I have to find real estate for at least 8 displays to have one for each core in a two processor XEON quad core rig. Let see in render farm nodes that is eight all under one roof all the same speed. I will need the 15K spindle speed for those moments in Poser when it goes to swap then settles in a nice pixel by pixel rollout. Petabytes of external will not allow me to mirror my favorite sites for backup when they lose their angels. I'm still the only trace. The sole survivor. The last of the buffalo.

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chimera46

8:47AM | Fri, 02 February 2007

Great view and collage, well done.

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evielouise

9:58AM | Fri, 02 February 2007

Isn't mother nature incredible we should take care of her : wonderful photo its fine richard:

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claude19

2:45PM | Fri, 02 February 2007

Excellent showing in the good format for a natural extraordinary accident !

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moochagoo

3:19PM | Fri, 02 February 2007

I've been there twice ! Fine panorama.

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jocko500

10:45PM | Fri, 02 February 2007

I saw this in real live so I know how big it is. I like this photo of yours here

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Elcet

1:11AM | Sat, 03 February 2007

Very impressive Richard Excellent collage, coping with the light change; it is not always easy to match different photographs to create a panorama when weather is so changing. I do'nt know which app you used; for me I use Photoshop CS2, if you had, very probably you could do better adjustments between the left part and the rest of the pano because it has much better functions than older versions (Photoshop 6 and 7) and even than CS1. Thanks for sharing this quite interesting documentary view..

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