Wabar craters — The Wabar craters are meteorite impact craters found by accident by an explorer searching for the legendary city of Ubar in Arabia.The vast desert wasteland of southern Saudi Arabia known as the Empty Quarter, or Rub al Khali in Arabic, is one of … Wikipedia
Wabar — 21.5025550.47408 Koordinaten: 21° 30′ 9″ N, 50° 28′ 27″ O … Deutsch Wikipedia
Black Stone — The Black Stone (called الحجر الأسود al Hajar ul Aswad in Arabic) is a Muslim object of reverence, which according to Islamic tradition dates back to the time of Adam and Eve. It is the eastern cornerstone of the Kaaba, the ancient sacred stone… … Wikipedia
Impact event — Artist s impression of a major impact event. The collision between Earth and an asteroid a few kilometers in diameter may release as much energy as several million nuclear weapons detonating simultaneously. An impact event is the collision of a… … Wikipedia
Iram of the Pillars — (Arabic: إرَم ذات العماد, Iram ḏāt al imād), also called Aram, Iram, Irum, Irem, Erum, Wabar, Ubar, or the City of a Thousand Pillars[citation needed], is a lost city (or region surrounding the lost city) on the Arabian Peninsula. Contents … Wikipedia
Meteorite — This article is about debris from space that survives impact with the ground. For other uses of Meteor and Meteors , see Meteor (disambiguation). For popular applications, see Falling star. For the fictional superhero in the Marvel Comics… … Wikipedia
Jeffrey C. Wynn — Dr Jeffrey C. Wynn (aka Jeff Wynn), is a research geophysicist with the US Geological Survey. He has served most recently as the Team Chief Scientist for Volcano Hazards, USGS [Citation last1 = Wynn | first1 = Jeff last2 = Dzurisin | first2 =… … Wikipedia
National Museum of Saudi Arabia — Hand written Quran on display The National Museum of Saudi Arabia is a major national museum in Saudi Arabia. Established in 1999,[1][2] … Wikipedia
Impactite — is an informal term describing a rock created or modified by the impact of a meteorite. [ [http://www.museum.hu berlin.de/min/forsch/classification.html Classification and nomenclature of impactites] ] The term encompasses shock metamorphosed… … Wikipedia
