Final answer:
The Great Red Spot on Jupiter, a massive storm system, is not the result of a meteorite impact; hence, option e is the correct answer.
Step-by-step explanation:
The question asks which of the listed options is not the result of a meteorite impact. Among the given choices:
- The extinction of the dinosaurs on Earth was indeed caused by a meteorite impact, believed to be the large asteroid that struck off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula 65 million years ago. This resulted in a sharp spike in the levels of iridium and caused massive environmental changes leading to their extinction.
- Creation of Earth's Moon has various hypotheses, but the giant impact hypothesis involving a large collision with Earth is the most widely accepted, not a direct meteorite impact.
- Miranda's unusual surface structure is attributed to internal geologic activity and tidal heating rather than meteorite impacts.
- The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is a massive storm system, not a result of a meteorite impact.
- Barringer Crater in northern Arizona is a well-known result of a meteorite impact, as it was formed about 50,000 years ago by a 40-meter iron meteorite.
The answer to the question is e. Great Red Spot on Jupiter, which is not the result of a meteorite impact but is instead a persistent high-pressure region in the atmosphere of Jupiter, producing an anticyclonic storm.