Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Arizona Places: Meteor Crater

Are you looking to get away this weekend to a cool northern Arizona place.  Why not check out a great big hole in the ground. Just over two hours away is the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth!

The world’s best preserved meteorite impact site just minutes from Interstate 40 in Northern Arizona near Winslow. Meteor Crater is the breath-taking result of a collision between a piece of an asteroid traveling at 26,000 miles per hour and planet Earth approximately 50,000 years ago.

Today, Meteor Crater is nearly one mile across, 2.4 miles in circumference and more than 550 feet deep. It is an international tourist venue with outdoor observation trails, air conditioned indoor viewing, wide screen movie theater, interactive discovery center, gift and rock shop, and Astronaut Memorial Park at the Visitor Center located on the crater rim.

Meteor Crater's "Collisions And Impacts" movie allows viewers to experience the thunderous sound and explosive fury of the meteor's super-heated trip through the Earth's atmosphere. Then, the spectacular result of the collision that rocked the American Southwest with the energy of more than 20 million tons of TNT can be explored first-hand just outside the Visitor Center at Meteor Crater Arizona.

Guests to Meteor Crater may also put on their walking shoes for a 1/2 mile guided foot tour of the crater rim which leaves the Visitor Center every half hour between 9:15am and 2:15pm, weather permitting.

Meteor Crater is located off I-40 at exit 233, then 6 miles south on the paved road. 35 miles east of Flagstaff, 20 miles west of Winslow, in Arizona.

Website: http://www.meteorcrater.com/

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