Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Daniel Barringer


Related Topics

In the News (Tue 18 Jun 13)

  
  Barringer (Lunar crater) - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Barringer is a lunar impact crater that is located on the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon.
It is attached to the north-northeastern rim of the Apollo walled-basin, and lies to the southeast of Plummer crater.
South of Barringer, on the floor of the Apollo basin, is the Scobee crater.
www.open-encyclopedia.com /Barringer_%28Lunar_crater%29   (163 words)

  
 Daniel Barringer - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Daniel Moreau Barringer (1860 – 1929) is best known for being the first person to prove the existence of a meteorite crater on Earth, the Barringer Meteorite Crater, or Meteor Crater, in Arizona.
Daniel Barringer graduated from Princeton University in 1879 at the age of 19, and in 1882 graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Law School.
Barringer died of a heart attack on November 30, 1929, shortly after reading the very persuasive arguments that no iron was to be found.
www.open-encyclopedia.com /Daniel_Barringer   (540 words)

  
 Barringer Crater   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Barringer Crater, also known as Meteor Crater, is a famous impact crater of a meteorite, located in the northern Arizona desert, United States.
Some geologists believed it was a volcanic crater, but in 1905 a mining engineer and businessman named Daniel Moreau Barringer suggested it was the result of the impact of a large iron-metallic meteorite.
Barringer spent 27 years trying to mine the crater and find metallic iron, which he believed to have been left by the meteorite.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Barringer_Crater.html   (853 words)

  
 Barringer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Daniel Moreau Barringer, (1806–1873), U.S. Congressman from North Carolina, 1843–1848
The Barringer Meteorite Crater (or The Meteor Crater), located near Flagstaff, AZ, one of the largest and best-known meteorite craters on Earth.
The Barringer crater on the moon, posthumously named after Daniel Barringer.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barringer   (146 words)

  
 [No title]
The Barringer Meteorite Crater (also known as "Meteor Crater") is a gigantic hole in the middle of the arid sandstone of the Arizona desert.
In 1923, Barringer's 12-year-old son Richard published an article in Popular Astronomy, using his father's rifle experiments to argue for the impact origin of the lunar craters; Barringer himself repeated the arguments a short time later in the Scientific American.
Daniel Moreau Barringer's struggle to prove his theory about the impact origin of the crater is an example of the enormous difference that one determined individual can make - even if that individual is a non-scientist working to change the prevailing scientific view.
www.barringercrater.com /science/main.htm   (2281 words)

  
 Velvet Mafia Presents 'Daniel in the Surlyburb' by David Barringer
Daniel faces the woods and pretends to discern shadows among the tents of tentworms.
Daniel is sledding toward the flat roof of the porch.
Daniel, crying, struggles to his feet, fisting the silk of Chok's magnolia shirt, the phosphorescent pattern shimmering in his eyes.
www.velvetmafia.com /04/barringer.php   (1325 words)

  
 Daniel Barringer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Daniel Laurens Barringer, (1788-1832), U.S. Congressman from North Carolina, 1825-1834
Daniel Moreau Barringer, (1806-1873), U.S. Congressman from North Carolina, 1843-1848
Daniel Moreau Barringer (1860-1929), geologist, best known for proving the Meteor Crater as being an impact crater
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Daniel_Barringer   (101 words)

  
 Barringer Crater   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Some geologists believed itwas a volcanic crater, but in 1905 a miningengineer and businessman named Daniel Moreau Barringer suggested itwas the result of the impact of a large iron-metallic meteorite.
Later research by Gene Shoemaker would prove him right, as the crater was lined with materials showing the effects of theenormous pressures and high temperatures associated with an impact event.It is the first site to be proven to be formed by the impact of an object from outer space.
Barringer spent 27 years tryingto mine the crater and find metallic iron, which he believed to have been left by the meteorite.
www.therfcc.org /barringer-crater-59661.html   (529 words)

  
 Barringer, Daniel Moreau (1860-1929)
When he learned that beads of iron were mixed in with the rocks of the crater’s rim, Barringer immediately concluded that the great pit had been blasted out by an iron meteorite, roughly as wide as the crater, that now lay buried under the crater floor.
Barringer was wrong about the physics of hypervelocity cratering, and, after more than a quarter of a century of searching, his Meteor Crater Exploration and Mining Company ran out of money and shut down in 1929.
However, Barringer had by then succeeded in convincing most of the scientific community that his impact theory was correct.
www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/B/Barringer.html   (281 words)

  
 Meteor Crater * Meteorites, Meteoroids, Asteroids
Daniel Moreau Barringer, a Philadelphia mining engineer, was a man of immense vigor and intelligence, a charismatic, impatient and hot-tempered individual who enjoyed quoting his wife's description of him as "half gentleman and half savage".
Barringer's outsider status, his forceful and opinionated personality, and his scornful dismissal of contrary opinions, could not have endeared him to the scientific establishment of his time.
Barringer's attempts to convince the scientific community of the truth of his theory were, of course, intimately connected with his growing need to raise capital for continued drilling.
www.barringercrater.com /lite/impact/impact.htm   (3573 words)

  
 Earth Impact Database
Barringer, B. 1964 Daniel Moreau Barringer (1860-1929) and his crater (The beginning of the Crater Branch of Meteoritics).
Barringer, D.M. 1905 Coon Mountain and its crater.
Krinov, E.L. 1966 The Arizona (Barringer) meteorite crater.
www.unb.ca /passc/ImpactDatabase/images/barringer.htm   (2659 words)

  
 1st North Carolina Cavalry - Regimental History
Captain Barringer and his troops were once called on to perform a distinctly unmilitary operation, that of escorting General Stuart while he made a courtesy call on some lady friends who happened to reside off the designated path.
Major Barringer and his horse, Black shot, along with the troopers of the 1st N.C. were at the front so close on the heels of the Federals that they might have been part of the same company of men.
Lincoln gave Barringer a note to the Secretary of War, Stanton, saying that the General was the brother of a dear friend and to please make his stay in prison as comfortable as possible.
firstnccav.home.mindspring.com /nc1hist2.html   (4832 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Meteor crater
Barringer Crater, more-commonly known as Meteor Crater, is a famous impact crater created by a meteorite, located about 35 miles or 55 kilometers east of Flagstaff, near Winslow in the northern Arizona desert (USA).
The Canyon Diablo meteorite impacted at Barringer Crater, Arizona and is known from fragments collected around the crater and nearby Canyon Diablo which lies about 3 to 4 miles west of the crater.
Daniel M. Barringer Daniel Moreau Barringer (1860 – 1929) is best known for being the first person to prove the existence of a meteorite crater on Earth, the Barringer Meteorite Crater, or Meteor Crater, in Arizona.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Meteor-crater   (2328 words)

  
 [No title]
Daniel Moreau Barringer of Cabarrus County and Raleigh, N.C., was a lawyer; North Carolina state legislator; United States representative, 1843-1849; minister to Spain, 1849-1853; active Whig and later Democrat; and member of the North Carolina Democratic Party state executive committee, 1860, and chair, 1872.
Daniel Moreau Barringer was born in Cabarrus County, N.C., 30 July 1806, the son of Paul and Elizabeth (Brandon) Barringer.
Barringer was married on 15 August 1848 to Elizabeth Wethered (1822-1867), daughter of Lewin and Elizabeth (Ellicott) Wethered of Baltimore.
www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/ead2/03359.xml   (979 words)

  
 Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature
Barringer recognizes the problem of monopoly control by private interests over the provision of services, but there is another side to the coin that he does not acknowledge.
With very low access fees, the park suffered from a congestion externality, but the fact that the Northern Pacific Railway had an almost complete monopoly on transportation to the park and the YNPIC controlled most of the transportation and lodging within the park meant that they had strong incentives to internalize that externality.
Barringer seems to think it necessary to make rather sweeping claims of exploitation and of "selling off the park." However, his analysis leads to the more modest conclusion that competing interest groups, both inside and outside of government, tried to gain control to further their own interests.
www.eh.net /bookreviews/library/0532.shtml   (1380 words)

  
 [No title]
Barringer's book contributes to the ongoing debate over the character and limits of the social construction of nature as it raises important questions about what our national parks represent, why so many people continue to feel so strongly about them, and what must be done to protect them.
At this time, Barringer explains, the NPS and its concessionaires were faced with "molding a landscape with expectations impossible to fulfill" (162).
Barringer's thesis is clearly that the NPS and its concessionaires presented their product to fit the perceptions of the natural setting prominent at the time.
www.jakanoka.com /index.php?idnum=0700611673&Mode=books&BrowseNode=&BrowseNodeName=SEARCHRESULT   (1005 words)

  
 Daniel Barringer - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
With both scientific and monetary aims in mind, Barringer created the Standard Iron Company in order to mine the crater for the iron that he assumed must be buried under the surface.
A grand obsession: Daniel Moreau Barringer and his crater
Speech of D.M. Barringer, of North Carolina, on the tariff, delivered in the House of Representatives of the U.S., July 1, 1846
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /daniel_barringer.htm   (645 words)

  
 | Book Review | Environmental History, 8.2 | The History Cooperative
Mark Barringer's Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature transforms what might seem a rather mundane subject into a fascinating narrative of commerce, culture, and nature.
     Barringer clarifies why National Park Service (NPS) administrator Steven Mather wanted to consolidate concessions—at one time forty outfits operated in Glacier National Park, so mergers during the 1920s made NPS administration simpler.
Barringer has created a thoughtful, significant and welcome addition to the literature on Yellowstone.
www.historycooperative.org /journals/eh/8.2/br_13.html   (593 words)

  
 East Valley Tribune | Daily Arizona news for Chandler, Gilbert, Tempe, Mesa, Scottsdale
Barringer was stunned to learn that small meteorites had been found near the hole.
Barringer guessed that a nickel-iron meteorite about the size of the hole had created the crater.
Barringer’s descendants own Meteor Crater, which is open for tours.
www.eastvalleytribune.com /index.php?sty=32644   (464 words)

  
 Biography of the Barringer Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Barringer Family Fund has been established as a memorial to four of Daniel Moreau Barringer's sons - Brandon, Moreau or Reau as he was called, Paul and Richard.
As the first person to identify the true origin of The Barringer Meteorite Crater (aka Meteor Crater) Daniel Moreau Barringer instilled a deep interest about the crater and its signficance to his sons.
In the late 1980's Paul (and the Barringer family) was recognized with a special award by the Society for his contributions to meteoritics, especially the support of young students through travel stipends to attend Society meetings.
www.lpl.arizona.edu /Awards/Barringer_Fund/biography.html   (252 words)

  
 Arthur Ross Hall of Meteorites | American Museum of Natural History
When mining engineer Daniel Moreau Barringer first saw the crater in 1903, he not only suspected that it formed during a meteorite impact, he also believed he could unearth a huge meteorite mass and market its valuable metal content.
Although Barringer's mining attempts failed-most of the meteorite had been destroyed on impact-his dedicated research on the crater laid a foundation for understanding impact cratering on Earth and other planets.
When Barringer's drilling crews bored into the rock layers under and around the crater, they found convincing evidence that it could not have formed from a volcanic explosion, as some had suggested.
www.amnh.org /exhibitions/permanent/meteorites/impacts/model.php   (729 words)

  
 [No title]
Correspondence includes a letter, 10 June 1865, from Barringer at Fort Delaware to his children; a typed transcription of a letter, 27 January 1866, to Barringer's brother detailing his experiences during the Civil War; and an 1886 circular addressed to Barringer's farm tenants about payment of rents and related matters.
Rufus Barringer was born in Cabarrus County, N.C., on 2 December 1821.
Barringer then studied law with his brother, Daniel Moreau Barringer, in Concord, N.C. Barringer settled in Concord, representing Cabarrus County in the North Carolina House of Commons, 1848-1850.
www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/ead2/01028.xml   (875 words)

  
 Barringer Crater - TheBestLinks.com - Arizona, Camel, Europe, Earthquake, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Barringer Crater - TheBestLinks.com - Arizona, Camel, Europe, Earthquake,...
Barringer Crater, Arizona, Crater, Camel, Europe, Earthquake, Hurricane, Iron...
Later research by Eugene M. Shoemaker would prove him right, as the crater was lined with materials showing the effects of the enormous pressures and high temperatures associated with an impact event.
www.thebestlinks.com /Barringer_Crater.html   (596 words)

  
 North Chadderton School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1902 a mining engineer, Daniel Barringer, thought that the crater was formed by an enormous iron meteorite, which would have been buried below the surface.
It is now accepted that the meteorite, travelling as such a velocity would have been totally disintegrated as a result of the combination of the processes of vaporisation, melting of the meteorite, and in the fragmentation upon impact with the ground.
The Barringer Crater was one of the official centres by NASA for training Apollo astronauts.
www.webschool.org.uk /print.php?sid=11&POSTNUKESID=69fcacb37bfd805fa01a256da83240db   (502 words)

  
 Durango Herald Online
The site is privately owned by the descendants of Daniel Moreau Barringer, who came to the area in the early 1900s to mine the meteor's remnants, which he hoped would be rich in iron ore.
Barringer was right about the crater's origins - but he didn't know the meteor vaporized during impact, and mined for over 25 years, discovering nothing.
Barringer's family converted Meteor Crater into a tourist attraction in 1942, when the first visitors center was built, charging 25 cents for admission.
www.durangoherald.com /asp-bin/article_generation.asp?article_type=travel&article_path=/travel/travel050717_1.htm   (669 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.