Climate Change: Meteor

Media: photography

Number of images: 3

Print size: 16x20 inches

Execution: 2023

50,000 years ago, an iron-nickel meteorite 30 to 50 meters in diameter (98 to 164 feet) struck a juniper pinyon forest in northern Arizona, (believed to be) populated by mammoths, mastodons, large ground sloths, tapirs, bison, camels and horses. The force of the impact crushed the area spewing debris up to 1.6 kilometers (1 mile), leaving a crater measuring 1.2 kilometers across (0.75 miles), 180 meters deep (600 feet) and 3.86 kilometers in circumference (2.4 miles).

According to NASA, every 2,000 years, a meteoroid measuring up to 90 meters in length (300 feet), hits earth.

Photograph of the Barringer Meteorite Crater

Barringer Meteorite Crater, Arizona

Photograph of the Barringer Meteorite Crater

Barringer Meteorite Crater, Arizona

Photograph of the Barringer Meteorite Crater

Barringer Meteorite Crater, Arizona