7 Unique Facts About Meteor Craters Version 7uniquefacts

Have you ever seen the crater? In this time , i will discuss about meteor crater. Meteor crater is a crater[phe formed by a meteorite hitting the Earth. And here are seven unique facts about meteor crater version 7uniquefacts.

1. Bosumtwi crater in Ghana   

This crater is located 30 km south-east of Kumasi, Ghana. Lake Bosumtwi is the nature of a collision meteor impact 1.3 million years ago.

This crater diameter is 10.6 km depth of 45 m. Continuous rain flooded the former makes the collision formed a lake. Local belief that lake is a place where the souls of dead to confront the god Twi.

  2. Barringer Crater in Arizona, United State

In 49,000 years ago a meteorite the size "only" 150 ft and weight + / - 300,000 tonnes of contained nickel and iron with a speed of 40,000 miles / hour hit the Earth, the result of a meteor collision can be seen 55 km east Flasgaff, Arizona USA called Barringer Crater . This crater is the unique facts of the best preserved crater until now, the same forces that produced 20 million tons of TNT explosion!
The result is the diameter of 148 ft (45 m) with a depth of 175 m, was discovered by Daniel Barringer in 1902 for mining, up to this day is still a family-owned crater Barringer. Also called Meteor Crater, Coon Butte, and Canyon Diablo.

3. Deep Bay Crater in Canada

The crater is located in Southwestern Lake in Saskatchewan, Canada with a width of 13 km and a depth of 220 m occurred about 100 million years ago. Judging from its structure, indeed almighty crash.

 4. Aorounga impact crater in Chad

Unique facts, the Aorunga is when a meteorite is 1 mile (1.6 km), which hit Earth some 2-300 million years ago, in an area in the Sahara desert north of Chad, Africa, collisions can occur approximately 1 million years.

5. Mistastin Lake in Canada

Next unique facts located in Labrador, Canada. Mistastin Lake is a form of meteorite hit the Earth the result, the result a hole with a diameter of 28 km was gaping in the earth's crust.

6. Kara-Kul in Tajikistan

This is a unique fact in an altitude of 13,000 feet (3,900 m) above sea level, there is Kara - Kul. also known sebagaiQarokul: 16 miles (25km) wide lake in the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan, near the Chinese border.

The lake is actually located within 28 miles (45km) wide circular depression, which was hit by a meteorite approximately 5 million years ago, Kara-kul was found only recently, through satellite imagery.

7.  Gosses Bluff in Australia

Around 142 million years ago a comet with a width of 22 km hit land Autralia, with a speed of 40 km / sec, can be likened to 22,000 megatons of TNT explosions, wow. . . it produces a pretty impressive unique facts which have a diameter of 24 km with a depth of 5000 m.