I visited it, and it's a decent place to visit once, but it's owned by the Barringer Crater Company and it kind of shows. The site really ought to be a National Park or similar.
TFA: These kinds of studies have led to the identification of, so far, of about 200 confirmed impact craters on Earth, Koeberl said. "Impact crater studies have actually grown in importance over the years and are an interdisciplinary effort. We encourage young researchers from all over the world to submit grant proposals,"
So the new is that we can find more craters?
bilsbie•1h ago
dylan604•52m ago
Not a lot of gold and such. It's not like the impact was going to fuse atoms of nickel-iron into gold.
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater
tw-20260303-001•51m ago
cratermoon•50m ago
2. Most of the impact object vaporized in the estimated 10MT release of energy.