Barringer Crater (8 photos)

Barringer is the most famous meteorite crater in the world. About it removed a lot of documentaries, his image is used as a visual picture of the consequences of the collision of cosmic bodies with the Earth, and in 1960 NASA astronauts were in training before sending it to the moon.

This amazing crater appeared about 50 000 years ago after the fall of fifty-meter iron meteorite weighing 300 000 tonnes. Its diameter - 1.2 km and a maximum depth - more than 170 m.