Meteor Crater, AZ (July 10, 2009) ..On our way to Williams, AZ we made a side trip to Meteor Crater since it was only a few miles from I-40. This impact crater owned by the Barringer family has been featured several times on the Astronomy Picture of the Day website. It is the best preserved of all the impact craters on planet earth; the others have been hidden and eroded by wind and weather. Diameter is approximately 4000 feet and depth is about 570 feet. The iron meteorite that created the site is estimated to have been about 150 feet in diameter weighing 300,000 tons travelling at a speed of 25,000 to 40,000 miles per hour. It's interesting to note that this crater is very similar geologically to those created by underground nuclear testing in Nevada and New Mexico.
The above photo was made by Ed the lower one was retrieved from the web. For more information about the crater go to ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater
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