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 ).

However, simulation studies give a 70 percent probability that the crater was created by a fragment from the same break-up that created asteroid 298 Baptistina ; which was previously believed to be responsible for the formation of Chicxulub Crater and the extinction of the dinosaurs.

The protagonist, Samus, must travel through the world of Tallon IV, searching for twelve Chozo Artifacts that will open the path to the Phazon meteor impact crater, while collecting power-ups that enable the player to reach previously inaccessible areas ; the Varia Suit, for example, protects Samus ' armor against dangerously high temperatures, allowing her to enter volcanic regions.

The Regional Development Council had previously approved the feasibility study to transfer the airport to a site some 27 kilometers from the crater of Mayon, in barangay Bariis south of Legazpi City.

The lunar crater Maury is shared with and was co-named for Antonia Maury with it having previously been named only for her cousin, Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury, United States Navy.

The crater, known as Coon Mountain, had previously been studied by the geologist Grove Karl Gilbert in 1891.

This crater was previously identified as Archimedes F before being named by the IAU.

This crater was previously designated Schiaparelli D before being given a name by the IAU.

This crater was previously identified as Sabine B before being named by the IAU.

This crater was previously identified as Sabine E before being renamed by the IAU.

This crater was previously identified as Maskelyne E before being named by the IAU.

This crater was previously identified as Linné E before 1973, when it was renamed by the International Astronomical Union in honour of Frederick Banting's contributions to medicine.

This crater was previously identified as Ollie Woods before being renamed by the IAU.

This crater was previously identified as Lichtenberg G before being renamed by the IAU.

This crater was previously identified as Wallace B before being renamed by the IAU.

The crater was previously known as Le Monnier B, a satellite crater of Le Monnier, before being renamed by the IAU.

This crater was previously identified as Taruntius E before being named by the IAU.

This crater was previously identified as Bonpland E before being renamed by the IAU.

This crater was previously designated as Jansen B before being given its current name by the IAU in 1979 in honour of the scientific contributions of the Nobel-winning French scientist Alexis Carrel.

The crater Vera was previously identified as Prinz A, and Ivan as Prinz B, before they were assigned names by the IAU.

This crater was previously designated Olbers A before being renamed by the IAU.

This crater was previously designated Drygalski Q before being assigned a name by the IAU.

This crater was previously identified as Bessel A before being renamed by the IAU.

This crater was previously designated Langrenus B before being renamed by the IAU.

This crater was previously designated Hercules A, a satellite crater of Hercules, before being renamed by the IAU.