{"id":979,"date":"2016-03-24T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/2016\/03\/24\/the-barringer-meteor-crater"},"modified":"2024-04-14T08:12:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T15:12:44","slug":"the-barringer-meteor-crater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/?p=979","title":{"rendered":"The Barringer Meteor Crater"},"content":{"rendered":"
50,000 years ago, an unbroken plain stretched along the high desert where a cottontail rabbit nibbled on a blade of sage brush. In a blinding flash, a meteorite estimated to have been about 150 feet across and weighing several hundred thousand tons struck the rocky plain with an explosive force greater than 20 million tons of TNT.<\/h5>\n
The rabbit is evaporized, and a crater 700 feet deep and over 4000 feet across is carved into this once flat plain. 175 million tons of limestone and sandstone are abruptly thrown over a mile to create a continuous blanket of debris.<\/h5>\n
The Star man has arrived.<\/h5>\n
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In 1902, Daniel Moreau Barringer<\/a>, a Philadelphia mining engineer, arrived at the site, formed the Standard Iron Company, and for the next twenty six years, persevered in attempting to drill and find the meteorite.<\/h5>\n
Unbeknownst to him though at that time, the meteor had completely disintegrated upon impact.<\/h5>\n
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In 1984, a movie is released called “Starman<\/a>“. I remember seeing the Meteor Crater for the first time in this film, and not even realizing it was a real place, I was inexplicably drawn to it.<\/h5>\n
Perhaps I too am an alien, looking for a way to communicate back home to the people I love.<\/h5>\n
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Regardless of what may draw you to see Barringer’s Meteor Crater<\/a>, whether it be scientific, inate curiosity, or a search for something greater in this Universe than ourselves, your time spent on the edge of this wonder will not dissappoint.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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