The hills just east of downtown showcase the eroded remains of the five mile ( 8 km ) wide impact crater that was blasted into the bedrock, with the area labeled the Wetumpka crater or astrobleme (" star-wound ") for the concentric rings of fractures and zones of shattered rock can be found beneath the surface.

" The next stop, station six, was a blocky crater, where the astronauts believed they could sample the Cayley Formation as evidenced by the firmer soil found there.

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.

This mound on Mars ' north pole may be the result of an impact crater that was buried by sediment and subsequently re-exposed by erosion.

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

He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1823, and the largest crater in the Moon's Mare Serenitatis is named Bessel after him.

Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java ( 1817 ), the purest sulphur was supplied from a crater from a mountain near the straits of Bali.

The most commonly accepted etymology derives it from Latin gradalis or gradale via an earlier form, cratalis, a derivative of crater or cratus which was, in turn, borrowed from Greek krater ( a two-handed shallow cup ).

The roughly cleared landing area on the island's northeast end was later shelled by the Japanese, leaving crater holes.

The couple's bodies were burned in a shell crater, but owing to the lack of petrol the burning was only partly effective.

The bodies of Goebbels and his wife were then burned in a shell crater, but owing to the lack of petrol the burning was only partly effective, and their bodies were easily identifiable.

To obscure its lower end, the tower was designed to sit within a crater.

The planet was then renamed for the crater, and settled by humans in a huge city running up the crater wall.

Because Little Boy was an air burst above the ground, there was no bomb crater and no local radioactive fallout.

( The very first example of a stony meteorite found in association with a large impact crater, the Morokweng crater in South Africa, was reported in May 2006.

A statue of Abel stands in Oslo, and crater Abel on the Moon was named after him.

One third of the building was destroyed by the explosion, which created a wide, deep crater on NW 5th Street next to the building.

After 28 X-rays showed nothing, it was finally diagnosed that the crater in his forehead had resulted in a skull fracture and he was sidelined for the remainder of the season, since a second impact could have been fatal.

The first artificial satellite was Sputnik 1, launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, and initiating the Soviet Sputnik program, with Sergei Korolev as chief designer ( there is a crater on the lunar far side which bears his name ).

* The crater Anaximenes on the Moon is named in his honour.

* Asimov ( crater ), an impact crater on Mars, named after Isaac Asimov

* Catalán ( crater ), a lunar crater named for Miguel Ángel Catalán

The crater Lyell on the Moon and a crater on Mars were named in his honour.

He received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1921, and named after him is small crater on the far side of the Moon and the radioactive Uranium mineral, Soddyite.

The lunar crater Soddy is named after him, as is the uranium compound Soddyite, found in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The crater Bayer on the Moon is named after him.

A crater on Mars and a promontorium on the Moon are also named in his honour.

The crater La Caille on the Moon is named after him.

The crater Proclus on the Moon is named after him.

The crater Regiomontanus on the Moon is named after him.

* A large crater covering the Moon's south pole is named Amundsen

A crater, Valhalla, located on the planet Jupiter's moon Callisto, is named after the hall.

* Zeno ( crater ), a lunar impact crater, named for Zeno of Citium

* Birmingham ( crater ), a lunar crater named for John Birmingham

The crater Zeno on the Moon is named in his honor.

Boolean algebra is named after him, as is the crater Boole on the Moon.

The crater Lilius on the Moon is named after him.

Two locations on the Moon were given primary consideration for exploration by the Apollo 16 expedition, the Descartes Highlands region west of Mare Nectaris and the crater Alphonsus.

Thus, for example, fumaroles from the Laguna Caliente crater of Poás Volcano create extremely high amounts of acid rain and fog, with acidity as high as a pH of 2, clearing an area of any vegetation and frequently causing irritation to the eyes and lungs of inhabitants in nearby settlements.

In practice, there is overlap between the three processes with, for example, the excavation of the crater continuing in some regions while modification and collapse is already underway in others.

The researchers claiming that this feature is an impact crater suggest that the impact may have been the triggering event for the Deccan Traps as well as contributing to the acceleration of the Indian plate in the early Paleogene.

Indigenous names for the mountain include Koma Kulshan or Kulshan ( Lummi, qwú ’ mə, " white sentinel ", i. e. " mountain ", and kwəlshé: n, " puncture wound ", i. e. " crater "); Quck Sam-ik ( Nooksack: kw ’ eq sámit, " white mountain "); Kobah ( Skagit: qwúbə ’, " white sentinel ", i. e. " mountain "); and Tukullum or Nahcullum ( in the language of the unidentified " Koma tribe ").

In 2006, a group of American scientists from The Ohio State University reported evidence for a possible huge meteorite crater ( Wilkes Land crater ) with a diameter of around 500 kilometers in Antarctica.

The LCROSS impacter was targeted at the Cabeus crater which was chosen as having a high concentration of water for the Moon.

* The lunar crater Maskelyne is named for him.

Now faced with considerable flanking fire, they also went down into the crater, and for the next few hours, Mahone's soldiers, along with those of Maj. Gen. Bushrod Johnson and artillery, slaughtered the IX Corps as it attempted to escape from the crater.

The 1962 Sedan ( nuclear test ) | Sedan nuclear test formed a crater 100 m ( 330 ft ) deep with a diameter of about 390 m ( 1, 300 ft ), as a means of investigating the possibilities of using peaceful nuclear explosions for large-scale earth moving.

In 1891 Grove Karl Gilbert, chief geologist for the U. S. Geological Survey, investigated the crater and concluded that it was the result of a volcanic steam explosion.