Visit to Barringer
Meteor
Crater, USA, 1973 April
Made by Colleen ("Collie") and Patrick Wiggins
Scans of original 35mm slides
(click on
images for enlarged view)
See also: Henbury
Meteor Craters
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View from the parking
lot. Ours is the car with the trailer (I still own that car).
002 through 009
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Panorama looking south.
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My wife Colleen (nickname "Collie")
descending the crater wall.
011
View up on the climb down.
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Collie on the climb down.
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Collie nearly at the bottom.
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Crater floor looking south.
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Collie on the crater floor.
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Looking north to the museum.
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Collie on the crater floor.
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Drill site in foreground and the
objective of my climb (the south wall
rim).
019
Drill repair tunnel.
020
Drill site (used by Daniel
Barringer's Standard Iron Company when
looking for the meteorite in the early 20th
century).
021
West wall from just below the south
rim.
022
Looking down from just below the
south rim.
023
Crater floor and north wall from
just below the south wall rim.
024
Floor from just below the south
wall rim.
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West wall from just below the south
wall rim.
026
South wall rim.
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Floor, north wall and museum from
just below the south rim.
028
Abandoned mining machinery on the
crater floor.
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Nearing the north wall rim.
030
North wall rim viewing stand from
below.
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View north of the crater.
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View north of the crater.
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Panorama views assembled from
images above by Uwe Figge on 2010 NOV 23.
Questions or comments about this page? Contact Patrick
Wiggins.
Space for this page provided by Beehive Broadband as a public service
to the NASA Solar
System Ambassador program.
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