10 World's Largest Meteor Crater
meteor crater is a crater formed since the fall of meteor in an area. Meteor is very large so as to form a meteor crater . In this world very much meteor crater but there 10 the world's largest meteor crater formed hundreds to millions of years ago. Here goes 10 Meteor Crater the largest in the world
1. Barringer Crater, Arizona, United
About 49,000 years ago, a nickel-iron meteorite the size of approximately 45.72 meters long, weighing about a few hundred thousand tons (estimated 300,000) and browsing with the speed of 40,000 miles per hour, hit the earth. The result of the blow was there in 55 miles east of Flagstaff, Arizona, and was named Barringer crater. Impact craters that are still well maintained.
stretches as far as 1.2 kms in size, inside as deep as 175 meters and has a periphery which is taken as high as 45 meters higher than the plains around the crash site. Discovered in 1902, Given names follow the name of Daniel Barringer crater Barringer, a successful expert miners. Currently the site is still owned by his family and also known as Meteor Crater, Coon Butte, and Canyon Diablo
2. Bosumtwi, Ghana
About 30 kilometers southeast of Kumasi, Ghana, there is Lake Bosumtwi (the only natural lake country Ghana). The collision of meteorites about 1.3 million years ago to make an open hole in the ground along the 10.5 kilometers in diameter. The crater was gradually filled with water and became lakes such as the photo above. Surrounded by dense rainforest, the Ashanti (tribe setempat.red) treats it as a sacred lake. They assume that it is a place where the spirits meet with the god Twi.
3. Deep Bay Canada
Located in Saskatchewan, Canada, Deep Bay has a crater 13 kilometers wide, formed about 100 million years ago (some say 140 million years), when a meteor hit the area.
4. Gosses Bluff, Australia
Approximately 142 million years ago, an asteroid or comet (diameter 22 km) menghantan with speed 40 km / sec in the southern Northern Territory, near from the center of Australia, and the release of energy so great is equal to the explosion than 22,000 megatons of TNT. This is why Gosses Bluff became one of the significant impact structure on Earth. Dimensions are also amazing, because a diameter of 24 kilometers and has a depths to 5000 meters.
5. Aorounga Impact Crater, Chad
Aorounga crater formed about 200-300 million years ago situated in the Saharan desert, when a comet or asteroid along the 1.6 kilometers in diameter hit the Earth's crust. Such collisions occur is estimated to 1 times in every million years.
Aorounga crater stretches approximately 17 kilometers and was accompanied by two circles that are revealed by shuttle radar peswat SIR-C, after the retrieval image area about 36 miles of coverage. If the assumptions and the hypothesis that the dark areas on the upper right corner is the possibility of a second impact craters, then Aorounga may be part of a chain collision of the meteor.
6. Mistastin Lake, Canada
Located in Labrador, Canado, Mistastin crater is the result of a meteor collision, which resulted in the creation of a giant hole in the ground at 28 kilometers, in 38 million years ago.
7. Clearwater Lake, Canada
Two linkaran shaped crater lake located in the Canadian Shield in Quebec formed simultaneously in the collision of an asteroid pair which hit the earth about 290 million years ago. The biggest crater of 2 crater lake that is west of Clearwater with a diameter of 32 kilometers, whereas The second, Clearwater lake 22 kilometers east of diameter.
8. Kara-Kul, Tajikistan
Located at an altitude of 3900 meters above sea level, there are Kara-Kul, also known as Qarokul, a lake with a width of 25 kilometers in the Pamir mountains in Tajikistan, near the border with China . Kara-kul created by a meteor hit about 5 million years ago, and the newly discovered through satellite imagery.
9. Manicouagan, Canada
Manicouagan Reservoir Manicouagan Kuga or lake known as the "eye of Quebec," is a ring-shaped lake located in the heart of tengar Quebec, Canada, located along the ancient ruins. Approximately 212 million years ago, the 5 kilometer wide asteroid hit the earth, causing a giant hole as wide as 100 kilometers.
10. Chicxulub, Mexico
buried under the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, close to a derah named Chicxulub (a virtual language means "head demon"), the crater of an ancient collision is 170 kilometers in diameter. Collision occurred at about 65 million years ago, when a comet or asteroid the size of such a small town hit the earth (100 teraton TNT equivalent), and the resulting mega-tsunami, earthquake and volcanic eruption in the earth's surface.
Tabrkan Chicxulub area makes a lot of them think that that's what made the dinosaurs extinct, because the fire storm that blanketed the earth due to the wide distribution of the greenhouse effect which ultimately resulted in changes in the earth's climate.
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