How does the drop height of the marble affect the size of the crater in sand?

Aim To determine whether the height at which a marble is dropped affect the size of the crater. Scientific knowledge Impact craters are geologic structures formed when a large meteorite, asteroid or comet smashes in to a planet or a satellite. Meteorites are small rocks in space that hit the earth's atmosphere at a high velocity. Throughout their history they have heavily bombarded all the inner bodies in our solar system. In this experiment we …

…more visible and the whole experiment more reliable as the marble will have a better surface to land on. To follow on from this experiment we could investigate how the depth increases and try releasing the marble from different angles. Also in our experiment we only measured the diameter from one particular part. As the crater is not always perfectly round we could have taken several readings for the diameter and then found the average.