NASA’s interactive live map of asteroids!

Catch this video overview of an exciting visit to Barringer Meteor Crater!

NOAA article and video of solar eclipse

Global Climate change threatens meteoritical research:

Enjoy this explanation of meteorite and how we learn about the origin of the universe from these often small samples we find on earth! Thanks to Thomas Stevenson

Mörigen is an arrowhead fashioned from iron meteorite- before humans smelted their own iron!

The Barringer Family Fund for Meteorite Impact Research will provide a small number (3 to 5) of competitive grants each year in the range of $2,500 to $5,000 USD for support of field research at known or suspected impact sites worldwide.

Where will you be when the eclipse crosses North America?

Ramgarh Crater located in India has been named India’s first National Geo Heritage site by the Rajasthan Government.

When is the last time you visited this incredible natural phenomenon?

Are you an astronaut working on the NASA ARTEMIS missions to the moon? Or did you always want to be an astronaut? Come see the Meteor Crater where astronauts have trained for moon missions!

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day is an incredible shot of a meteor streaking over the Naples sky on Feb 8, 2024 taken by Wang Letian

Did you know impacts can displace enough mass to move the polls on the moon?

Have you ever touched a meteorite… or the largest single piece from the one that created the famous Meteor Crater in Arizona? Yes its real, and you can touch this space rock at the Visitor Center on your way to view the crater!

You can see from the surrounding volcanic areas why originally the crater was thought to have been formed by a volcano!

Astronaut Training for Operations in Impact-Cratered Terrains, authored by University Space Research Association's  Principal Scientist Dr. David Kring at the LPI

Another desert Meteorite Crater in USA is in Odessa TX- only a little older than Barringer Crater impacting 63,500 years ago

This article by Gabriel A. Pinto et al is a compilation of the physical and climatic properties of the more than 2700 classified Atacama meteorites.

This paper by Birger Schmitz et al provides evidence for a period of concentrated meteor showers due to an asteroid break up.

Special holiday activities at Meteor Crater!