SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -The rock and pieces of meteorite fall back to the ground as piles of debris. As the ground rebounds, the movement causes the sides of the transient crater to collapse. center of the crater floor to rise and form a hill. The central hill reaches its final height, and the melted rock cools into solid ground.

Detailed explanation-2: -An impact crater is formed when an object like an asteroid or meteorite crashes into the surface of a larger solid object like a planet or a moon. To form a true impact crater, this object needs to be traveling extremely fast-many thousands of miles per hour!

Detailed explanation-3: -The shock wave fractures the rock and excavates a large cavity (much larger than the impactor). The impact sprays material-ejecta-out in all directions. The impactor is shattered into small pieces and may melt or vaporize. Sometimes the force of the impact is great enough to melt some of the local rock.

Detailed explanation-4: -The reason why craters are made on Earth is because, when these chunks of rock pass through the atmosphere, they are too large to be slowed down and smash into the surface at a velocity of around 7.5 to 12.5 miles per second.

Detailed explanation-5: -That was the case 50, 000 years ago when an iron asteroid smashed into North America and left a gaping hole in what is today northern Arizona. Meteor Crater (also called Barringer Meteor Crater) is located between Flagstaff and Winslow on the Colorado Plateau.