Meteor Crater
Meteorite impact crater in northern Arizona
Summary
Meteor Crater, or Barringer Crater, is an impact crater about 37 mi (60 km) east of Flagstaff and 18 mi (29 km) west of Winslow in the desert of northern Arizona, United States. The site had several earlier names, and fragments of the meteorite are officially called the Canyon Diablo Meteorite, after the adjacent Canyon Diablo.
Originally created by Bryan Derksen
6/11/2002, 3:16:50 PM
Modified
5/20/2026, 2:27:13 AM
Recent revisions
([[c:GR|GR]]) [[c:COM:FR|File renamed]]: [[File:Meteoroid size comparison.svg]] → [[File:Impacting asteroids size comparison.svg]] [[c:COM:FR#FR3|Criterion 3]] (obvious error) · The objects in the image had been misidentified, compare edit summary of most recent update
I fixed the image description which was in the main text instead of in the image.
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Reverted [[WP:AGF|good faith]] edits by [[Special:Contributions/~2026-91821-3|~2026-91821-3]] ([[User talk:~2026-91821-3|talk]]): Typo introduced
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Bot: http → https
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There was an "ISBN / Date incompatibility", fixed by changing existing year= to orig-date= & filling in the correct year= for the modern edition cited
There was a Script warning on the page from a cite book template, "Category:CS1 maint: date and year", fixed by removing the redundant date= field as year= was already set
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Source says nothing about "closest community to the crater in the late 19th century", nor has any other source that I have found. Instead, they say that the canyon to the west (not the community, which is nowhere near) was part of the strewnfield. This is confirmed in several different sources.
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