One of the first photographs of the mysterious crater-like depression in central Arizona (= the famous Meteor or Barringer Crater nowadays) in European journals, provided by German geographer Joseph Partsch (1913, his fig. 22). The interior of crater, which is of 1.2 km diameter and ca. 180 m deep, is perfectly shown, and presents also the white spots where wells were drilled (see Barringer, 1905; Merrill, 1908). The Partsch extensive report from the international Transcontinental Excursion in 1912 resulted in wide spreading of the terrestrial impact problems in subsequent papers.