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)
001
View from the parking
lot. Ours is the car with the trailer (I still own that car).
002 through 009 +++++++ Panorama looking south.
010 My wife Colleen (nickname "Collie")
descending the crater wall.
011 View up on the climb down.
012 Collie on the climb down.
013 Collie nearly at the bottom.
014 Crater floor looking south.
015 Collie on the crater floor.
016 Looking north to the museum.
017 Collie on the crater floor.
018 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.
025 West wall from just below the south
wall rim.
026 South wall rim.
027 Floor, north wall and museum from
just below the south rim.
028 Abandoned mining machinery on the
crater floor.
029 Nearing the north wall rim.
030 North wall rim viewing stand from
below.
031 View north of the crater.
032 View north of the crater.
033 Panorama views assembled from
images above by Uwe Figge on 2010 NOV 23.
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