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Barringer died of a heart attack on
November 30, 1929, shortly after reading the very persuasive arguments that no iron was to be found. He was survived by his wife, Margaret Bennett, and eight children, who, with their descendants, formed the Barringer Crater Company, which owns the site to this day
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In honor of Daniel
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Upon hearing of the existence of the crater and the meteoritic iron, Barringer became convinced that the crater was of meteoritic origin. 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
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Barringer and his sons’ contributions to the field of impact crater research, the Barringer Crater Company established the Barringer Family Fund for Meteorite Impact Research to support field work by eligible students on the study of impact cratering processes.
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The mining of the crater continued until 1929 without ever finding the ten-million ton meteorite that
Barringer assumed must be hidden. By this point Barringer had spent over $ 600,000 with no iron profits to show for it, nearly bankrupting him. At this time the
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buried below its surface. The
Standard Iron Company conducted drilling operations in and around the crater between 1903 and 1905, and concluded that the crater had indeed been caused by a violent impact. It was unable to find the meteorite, however.
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performed calculations on the energy expended by the meteorite on impact, and concluded that the meteorite had most likely vaporized when it landed.
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