Baisha crater

The first crater found in China.

The crater is surrounded by a ring ridge with good continuity, and only the southwest edge is scoured by two streams and rivers. In the crater, you can see the lush, low hillside, tea trees in rows, full of green.

Baisha crater

Baisha crater is located in Baisha farm, 9km southeast of Yacha Town, with a diameter of 3.7km. It is the first crater found in China. It was formed when an asteroid fell here and exploded about 700000 years ago.

structure characteristics

The crater is surrounded by a ring ridge with good continuity, and only the southwest edge is scoured by two streams and rivers. In the crater, you can see the lush, low hillside, tea trees in rows, full of green. It's hard to imagine that a meteorite fell from the sky and impacted the earth 700000 years ago, causing rock fragmentation, melting and magma sputtering

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Scientists found fragments of meteorites in the crater, in which they found typomorphic minerals that only exist in meteorites. The type of meteorite is achondromite, which is round and oblate, weighing 3.75 kg and hard. It is the only discovery in China. Baisha crater is the only relatively young crater that can be identified in China, and it is also one of more than ten craters with meteorite fragments in the world.

Chinese scientists have scientifically estimated the size of the "extraterrestrial visitor" that hit the Baisha earth, believing that it is a meteorite with a diameter of 380 meters. How much energy does such a large planetary mass produce when it hits the land of Baisha? It is estimated that the impact energy is almost equal to 360 atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. There are many mysteries and some mysterious phenomena in Baisha crater. If the watch is magnetized on the west side of ejianling, where the sputtered coating is the thickest, the camera will automatically shut down and cannot work normally. If you leave here, it will return to normal. The Baisha meteorite crater in Hainan province not only has meteorite, but also has obvious crater shape landform and rock metamorphism and seismic fracture structure formed by impact. Compared with meteorite rain, it is a rare space tourism resource appearing on the surface.

Transportation guide

From Baisha County along yakha road to Baisha tea city (old Baisha farm), and then two kilometers ahead to the Nandujiang bridge (six kilometers from yakha Road), passing the bridge is team 4 of Baisha farm. From the intersection of team 4, you can go to team 8 (about three kilometers from the intersection to the crater).

Address: Baisha farm, Baisha Li Autonomous County, Hainan Province

Longitude: 109.455922

Latitude: 19.199161

Traffic information: from Baisha County along Yaxi road to Baisha tea city (old Baisha farm), and then two kilometers ahead to the Nandujiang bridge (six kilometers from Yaxi Road), passing by the bridge is team 4 of Baisha farm. From the intersection of team 4, you can go to team 8 (about three kilometers from the intersection to the crater).