Meteor Crater
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Script with Bibliography (40KB): Download (285)Meteor Crater, known to scientists as Barringer Meteorite Crater, is a meteorite impact crater site in northern Arizona, between Flagstaff and Winslow along Route 66 / I-40. I made this video as a research project for my astronomy class. Academically oriented and over six minutes in length, it may only be watchable for hardcore science nerds. There are plosive problems in the audio, too. If I had more time I’d try to solve that, but the reality is I just don’t have a proper microphone for voice over. You have been warned.
The video script with a bibliography is available in PDF and Word Document formats. I also posted a Barringer Meteorite Crater photo set on Flickr from my visit to the crater. The video is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.o License and can be embedded elsewhere by using the Share tool at Blip.tv.
November 26th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Have you read ‘A Short History of Nearly Everything’ by Bill Bryson? There’s loads about anything science nerds could possibly want to know about in there. I love knowing stuff.
November 26th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
Call me a nerd, but I found this fascinating! And brilliantly done.
I go all awestruck when such distances in time, and magnitude of impact is mentioned. Like when I used to lie on my back as a boy and look at the stars imagining.. Now I just lie in the gutter with everyone else, but as Oscar says, some of us look at the stars.
November 26th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
I found this very interesting. Your research project video was nicely done.
November 27th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
This should be on my list of things to see when taking I40 all the way to CA.. (one day). So, Barringer’s company bought the crater? I wonder how much a Meteor Crater costs?