Daniel Barringer ( 1860 – 1929 ) was one of the first to identify an impact crater, Meteor Crater in Arizona ; to crater specialists the site is referred to as Barringer Crater in his honor.

Initially Barringer's ideas were not widely accepted, and even when the origin of Meteor Crater was finally acknowledged, the wider implications for impact cratering as a significant geological process on Earth were not.

Barringer Crater ( a. k. a. Meteor Crater ) in Arizona was the world's first confirmed impact crater

* Impact Meteor Crater Viewer Google Maps Page with Locations of Meteor Craters around the world

Some meteorites have informal nicknames: the Sylacauga meteorite is sometimes called the " Hodges meteorite " after Ann Hodges, the woman who was struck by it ; the Canyon Diablo meteorite, which formed Meteor Crater has dozens of these aliases.

Examples of craters caused by iron meteoroids include Barringer Meteor Crater, Odessa Meteor Crater, Wabar craters, and Wolfe Creek crater ; iron meteorites are found in association with all of these craters.

* Meteor Crater in Arizona, also known as Barringer Crater, the first confirmed terrestrial impact crater.

The Holsinger meteorite is the largest discovered fragment of the meteorite that created Meteor Crater and it is exhibited in the crater visitor center. The Barringer Meteor Crater from space.

Meteor Crater is a meteorite impact crater approximately east of Flagstaff, near Winslow in the northern Arizona desert of the United States.

Because the US Department of the Interior Division of Names commonly recognizes names of natural features derived from the nearest post office, the feature acquired the name of " Meteor Crater " from the nearby post office named Meteor.

Meteor Crater lies at an elevation of about 1, 740 m ( 5, 709 ft ) above sea level.

Aerial view of Arizona Meteor Crater, September 2010

Since then, numerous impact craters have been identified around the world, though Meteor Crater remains one of the most visually impressive owing to its size, young age, and lack of vegetative cover.

* The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet, the winner of the 1996 Interactive Fiction Competition, is strongly influenced by the Zork universe and includes many elements.

Karl XII is known as the " Swedish Meteor ".

The sole source of the story is credited to one Matthew Bloxam ( a former pupil, but not a contemporary of Webb Ellis ) in October 1876 ( four years after the death of Webb Ellis ) in a letter to the school newspaper ( The Meteor ) wherein he quotes some unknown friend relating the story to him.

The nearby Meteor Crater, sometimes known as the Barringer Crater and formerly as the Canyon Diablo crater, is a famous impact crater.

The Madisonville Meteor newspaper office is located next to the Madison County Museum.

Meteor is a town in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, United States.

The unincorporated community of Meteor is located in the town.

Despite barely knowing each other, they conspire to pose as a young professional couple in order to meet the requisites of an advertisement for a relatively cheap flat in the distinctive building at 23 Meteor Street, Tufnell Park, which is owned by and also houses the landlady, Marsha Klein ( Julia Deakin ).

Odessa Meteor Crater, an impact crater with in diameter, is located southwest of the city.

Meteor showers are named after the nearest bright star with a Greek or Roman letter assigned that is close to the radiant position at the peak of the shower, whereby the declension of the Latin possessive form is replaced by " id " or " ids ".

Metro International, publishers of the free newspaper Metro, are at 85 Fleet Street, while Meteor Press is at number 17.

Smith, in Volume One of the series, the 1948 book Triplanetary, the Golden Meteor is the insignia that was initially adoped as the symbol of the Galactic Patrol.

The Wethersfield Meteor is part of a collection at the Yale Peabody Museum.

Meteor is an active radar guided beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile ( BVRAAM ) being developed by MBDA.

In September 2010 the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration, signed a production order contract with the MoD for the Meteor missile ; the system is expected to be operational with the Swedish Air Force in 2015.

The Chief of Defence Procurement was reported as saying that this was nothing to do with the missile itself, " Meteor is actually going very well.

* The Barringer Crater ( or The Meteor Crater ), located near Flagstaff, Arizona, one of the largest and best-known meteorite craters on Earth

He then moved on to Meteor Records and then King Records where he recorded his best-known work.

As an example of the potentially devastating power of Mako when harnessed as a weapon, the Sister Ray canon was moved to Midgar during the Meteor crisis, and was connected to the Mako reactors in an effort to enhance its power ; the result was a massive beam of raw Mako energy that destroyed Diamond WEAPON.

Meteor ( 1979 ) features small asteroid fragments and a large wide asteroid heading for Earth.

In the 1979 film Meteor, a radio station giving out information after a very small meteor hits New York City uses the call letters WAPW.

For his Ph. D. degree at Princeton ( 1960 ), Shoemaker studied the impact dynamics of Barringer Meteor Crater, located near Winslow, Arizona.

where they meet Mio, a being connected to peoples ' memories, taking the form of a young girl bathed in light, and Raem, her dark counterpart born from the violence sparked by the Meteor impact, taking the form of a bird-like beast.

The other theory is an eroded impact crater, like the much younger Meteor Crater near Winslow, Arizona.

The local population is well aware of the impact origin of the structure, to the point that the town's official nickname is Meteor City.

In 1891 in one of the most controversial moves of his career, he proclaimed that Meteor Crater in Arizona ( then referred to as Coon Butte ) was the result of a volcanic steam explosion rather than an impact of a meteorite.

* Daniel Barringer ( 1860 – 1929 ), American geologist best known for proving the Meteor Crater to be an impact crater

Lechatelierite was formed during the impact of a meteorite into a layer of Coconino Sandstone at Meteor Crater in Arizona.

* Daniel Barringer ( geologist ) ( 1860 – 1929 ), geologist, best known for proving the Meteor Crater as being an impact crater

He was an early proponent of the theory of meteorite impact causing craters such as that of Meteor Crater, Arizona.