Title: Meteor Crater Wall - Photography By Artist Hank Miller
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Artist: N/A
Period: Contemporary
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Condition: Museum Quality
Item Date: 2010
Item ID: 4881
In 2010 I went on yet another road trip in the American Southwest enroute to Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico. After departing the La Posada Hotel in Winslow I drove up to the exit marked Meteor Crater 5 miles DO NOT MISS! So, I headed to the parking lot and purchased tickets to what I believed to be one more tourist scam enticing those on Route 66 and Interstate 40 to venture up the stairs to see a huge hole in the ground. At the top of the hill lies the museum along with the ever present gift shops and fast food stands. All of a sudden I looked North only to see this unfolding panorama through the window in their courtyard wall. My intention was to capture the window and still show the sky above the wall as if it were almost free standing. Alas, here it is! This image will be printed on demand by my commercial photo lab using the Lightjet 60 Laser printer onto Fuji archival paper either glossy or matte then mounted and over matted using acid free museum quality rag board in color arctic white. The frame will be Nielsen #11 in anodic black shipped with acrylic in lieu of glass. Each print is signed on the over mat by me.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater
Meteor Crater is a meteorite impact crater located approximately 43 miles (69 km) east of Flagstaff, near Winslow in the northern Arizona desert of the United States. Because the US Department of the Interior Division of Names commonly recognizes names of natural features derived from the nearest post office, the feature acquired the name of "Meteor Crater" from the nearby post office named Meteor.[2] The site was formerly known as the Canyon Diablo Crater, and fragments of the meteorite are officially called the Canyon Diablo Meteorite. Scientists refer to the crater as Barringer Crater in honor of Daniel Barringer who was first to suggest that it was produced by meteorite impact.[3] The crater is privately owned by the Barringer family through their Barringer Crater Company,[4] which proclaims it to be "the first proven, best-preserved meteorite crater on earth."[5]
Despite its importance as a geological site, the crater is not protected as a national monument, a status that would require federal ownership. It was designated a National Natural Landmark in November 1967.[6]
Meteor Crater lies at an elevation of about 1,740 m (5,709 ft) above sea level. It is about 1,200 m (4,000 ft) in diameter, some 170 m deep (570 ft), and is surrounded by a rim that rises 45 m (150 ft) above the surrounding plains. The center of the crater is filled with 210–240 m (700–800 ft) of rubble lying above crater bedrock.[1] One of the interesting features of the crater is its squared-off outline, believed to be caused by pre-existing regional jointing (cracks) in the strata at the impact site
