The Sky at Night
Season 24 Episode 9 - Meteor Crater
8.3 ?
1957
Documentary, News
In Northern Arizona there is a vast hole in the desert, almost a mile across and 600 feet deep, known as Meteor Crater. It was blasted out in prehistoric times by a huge iron meteorite, and is the most perfectly preserved impact area known on Earth. Patrick Moore visits Meteor Crater, and goes down into what has been described as the oldest of all natural museums.
Episodes in Season 24
1
Mapping the Sky
2
Saturn: The Disappearing Rings
3
The Man Who Discovered a Planet
4
The Multiple Mirror Telescope
5
Journey to the Centre of the Galaxy
6
Kitt Peak Observatory: the Solar Telescope
7
Quasars
8
The Mapping of Venus
9
Meteor Crater
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10
Autumn Equinox
11
The Scintars
12
Voyager I Reaches Saturn
13
