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impact crater

circular depression in a solid astronomical body formed by the impact of a smaller object
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impact crater
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impact crater

Summary

impact crater is an astronomical object type[1]. It draws 422 Wikipedia views per month (astronomical_object_type category, ranking #48 of 289).[2]

Key Facts

  • impact crater's video is recorded as Impact movie.ogv[3].
  • impact crater's image is recorded as Barringer Crater aerial photo by USGS.jpg[4].
  • impact crater's instance of is recorded as astronomical object type[5].
  • impact crater's subclass of is recorded as crater[6].
  • impact crater's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00564159[7].
  • impact crater's part of is recorded as planetary nomenclature[8].
  • impact crater's Commons category is recorded as Impact craters[9].
  • impact crater's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01wr8[10].
  • impact crater's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph138407[11].
  • impact crater's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Impact craters[12].
  • impact crater's Commons gallery is recorded as Impact crater[13].
  • impact crater's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 665442[14].
  • impact crater's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as geological=meteor_crater[15].
  • impact crater's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0081516[16].
  • impact crater's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/impact-basin[17].
  • impact crater's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/meteorite-crater[18].
  • impact crater's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/simple-crater[19].
  • impact crater's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox crater[20].
  • impact crater's different from is recorded as volcanic crater[21].
  • impact crater's different from is recorded as explosion crater[22].
  • impact crater's has part is recorded as Impact Melt Rock[23].
  • impact crater's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01001071[24].
  • impact crater's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 2107970[25].
  • impact crater's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 1835917[26].
  • impact crater's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as astrobleme[27].

Why It Matters

impact crater draws 422 Wikipedia views per month (astronomical_object_type category, ranking #48 of 289).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 29 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

Craters from Impacts and Explosions: Lunar Cratering Ganymede crater database

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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