Impact Research

The Barringer Meteorite Crater played an important role in the development of the scientific field of meteoritics. It continues to be a site of ongoing research and discovery.

Recent News & Research

  • NASA Research Field Camp

    11/01/2010

    In 2010 the Crater Company’s senior scientific advisor, Dr. David Kring, secured funding from NASA to hold a week-long research field camp at the crater.

  • Atmospheric Science: Thermal Inversion at the Barringer Meteorite Crater

    10/01/2009

    Atmospheric thermal inversion occurs when cold air is trapped beneath warmer air. Barringer Meteorite Crater, with its simple bowl-shaped topography, is an ideal experiment site for investigating this phenomenon.

  • Streaking through the Sky

    09/30/2009

    A new study investigates a century-old scientific mystery: Which direction did the asteroid that created the Barringer Meteorite Crater come from?

  • Shattered Earth or Fractured Past

    09/23/2008

    A new research study looks at geological fractures in the walls of the Barringer Meteorite Crater.

  • Geologic Guidebook for the Crater

    08/31/2007

    A Guidebook to the Geology of Barringer Meteorite Crater compiles the entire exploration history of the impact site, beginning with scientific studies in the late 1800s and Daniel Moreau Barringer’s pioneering discovery of the site’s impact origin in the early 1900s.

  • Barringer Family Fund Awardees for 2011

    07/26/2011

    Four students interested in the study of impact cratering processes will receive awards from the Barringer Family Fund for Meteorite Impact Research in 2011 to support field work at impact sites worldwide.