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A meteor only hits the Earth's atmosphere, not the Earth itself. When it impacts the Earth's surface, it is called a meteorite. The largest meteorite crater in Australia is the Wolfe Creek crater which is also the second largest meteorite crater in the world. The crater has a diameter of about 875m, and is over 50m deep. Originally, it was about 150m deep, but windblown sand, gypsum and calcite has filled in the crater over time, and given the floor of the crater a smooth, flat surface. The Wolfe Creek Crater lies on the northeastern edge of the Great Sandy Desert, about 90 km south of Halls Creek in north Western Australia. It can only be reached by an unsealed road that joins the Tanami Rd, 145km south of Halls Creek. The journey from Halls Creek takes between 1.5 and 2 hours.
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∙ 15y agoThe Largest Impact crater on Earth is the Vredefort crater located in Free State, South Africa. It is 300 km in Diameter.
The Largest impact crater in the Solar System is on the South pole of the Moon- Aitken basin with a diameter of 2,500 km.
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What is the largest iceberg?
The largest iceberg is B-15. It is the size of Connecticut.
What is the largest size a puddle can be?
a puddle can be any size or length i once saw a massive one size of a horse!!
What spans most of north Africa and covers an area of land about the size of the United States?
The Sahara Desert covers most of North Africa. The Sahara Desert is the largest subtropical hot desert and third largest desert in the world, after Antarctica and the Arctic.
Which has largest grain size sand or mud and clay?
sand
Compare volcanic crater to a caldera?
A Crater is a bowl shaped depression in the Earth's surface. It could be made by an impacting meteor, an underground land collapse, or perhaps may be found at the top of a volcano [= collapse].A Caldera is of volcanic origin, (but without a noticeable volcanic cone), where there was an eruption after which the magma chamber collapsed and is now filled in. Yellowstone is one notable example, and the Taupo Lake another.
How deep is Meteor Crater?
There is no normal diameter of a meteor crater. They all vary in size depending on the size of the meteorite. Many are between 10,000 and 30,000 meters in diameter but some can but much larger.
Does the surface where a meteor falls affect the size of the crater?
Yes.
What is created when a meteorite hits a planet?
It depends on the size of the meteor and where it lands. If it is a large meteor that lands on the hard ground, you will get a crater.
What kind of feature might be formed on Earth if a large meteorite reached its surface?
A large meteor strike on the earth might cause a crateron the surface. If it struck the water, it may leave a bit of a crater in the sea floor, depending on the size and velocity and composition of the meteor and the depth of the sea where it impacted. If it hit land, there'd be a big "dent" in the ground where the missle and the blast of impact gouged it out.
What is a Barringer Meteor Crater and how wide is it?
"The Barringer Meteorite Crater (also known as "Meteor Crater") is a gigantic hole in the middle of the arid sandstone of the Arizona desert. A rim of smashed and jumbled boulders, some of them the size of small houses, rises 150 feet above the level of the surrounding plain. The crater itself is nearly a mile wide, and 570 feet deep."
What meteor would make the biggest crater a big meteor or a heavy meteor or a fast moving meteor?
To put it simply, let's look at the question. Biggest (Radius), heaviest (Mass) or fastest (Velocity) The largest crater would be created by all three combined. Also, the size of the crater would be dependant on the ground it struck. A larger crater would be produced if it were a soft material like sand, whereas granite would only shatter and not make much of an impact. An object with the radius of tennis ball, would create a crater about the size of a tennis ball if dropped from say 50ft A lump of lead the size of a tennis ball would make a larger crater from the same height. A bullet travelling at 3,200 fps would make a small crater, but much larger than its initial radius or mass. So what would you rather be hit by? a) A large sheet of foam travelling at 10mph (Radius) b) A truck travelling at 5 mph (Mass) c) A bullet travelling at 3,200 fps. (Velocity) d) A bullet thrown at you (Low velocity) So, there is now way to answer the question, as all three are dependant on one another. An object with a large radius but low velocity will not make a larger crater than a massive object with a high velocity. Ditto, a massive object with low velocity will not make a larger crater than a bigger object with high velocity.
What is the 2nd largest country in the world according to size?
what is the second largest country in the world by size
What is the size of Crater Lake National Park?
the size of crater lake its about 183224 acrea
How did the size of the the meteroite affect the size of the crater?
Generally the larger the meteorite the larger the crater.
What is the largest country in the world in terms of geographic size?
The largest country in the world by geographic size is Russia.
What is the orbit of a meteor?
The orbit of a meteor depends on the size of the meteor. Different meteors have different orbits and it is hard to calculate its size.
What size is the chicxulub crater?
The crater is more than 180 kilometers (110 mi) in diameter, making the feature one of the largest confirmed impact structures in the world; the impacting bolide that formed the crater was at least 10 km (6 mi) in diameter
