Meteor Crater
December 21, 2010
Meteor Crater is worth a look-see, although its relatively commercial (privately owned), and relatively expensive (considering its a ways out of the way (about 30 miles from Flagstaff Arizona). They have some quite fun exhibits and have clearly spent some money on it and there are elements that they have tried to maintain some integrity and not simply bleed it for as much money as possible. Saturday 18th July 2009-07-19 Woke up sluggishly with the dawn. Drove down the road for a mile or two but failed to locate the turn for the VLA. Uturn and back again, – found it this time. Got there about 7ish and had the place to myself. After some scratching around worked out how to get in the back of the vistors center. This place is interesting because of how science has changed around it. It was build before the desktop, the web, and GPS. Many of the things this facility does could be done fairly simply these days with GPS, but in their time they were some technological feat. Drifted around till past 9 then onwards towards meteor crater. Decided enroute to skip painted desert and petrified forest. Got to meteor crater (through some great looking storms) about 4ish. Only when you get there (a 6 mile drive) do they tell you its 15 bux. I kinda new the deal here anyway, but I still found it rather sneaky. VERY windy. Movie was quite fun, and the displays were fairly well done. I think it was expensive for what it was, but it was still fun. The wind on the crater overlook was …
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This was pretty cool to see in person..bigger than I though
I thought the voice sounded like thunderfoot and then i checked up on your channel and it is lol, cool, nice new channel.
The ‘meteor creater’ meteor din’t explode with the force of 20 megatons, it was significantly smaller at about 4 megatons. If it really was 20 MT, the crater would be a little over 2 km wide, while it in reality is about 1.2 km.
almost half a mile? More like almost 3/5ths of a mile.
i’ve been there ^^
omg i hope no one was ther
I agree. When meteors and comets income a planet, they are sometimes absorbed by the planet. Nutrient supply. Like on Mars, impact craters might generatet dust winds, or so it just seems?.It depends on the viscosity of the clode surface. Sometimes it looks like a droplet in shockwaves.
but someone told me that i need sense…
why should i destroy it if i need it..?
fire a bullet into the bus. it will be gone forever
i have bus ramming inside my head!!
it destroys my head from inside out…. and all my sense is packed into that bus….. if it gets away…
what lil sense i got left is getting away with the bus!!
why is they trying to leave me all the time?!?!
wat should i doo???
The actual design called for 100, but they tested it at fifty. It was tested on one of those big arctic islands North of Russia (I know the name, but can’t spell it) and the shock wave was nevertheless noticed as far away as Western Europe.
Tape works, too.
“Maximum security.” lolcatz.
I think it’s wrong to play to see these things I mean the man dident build this the man dident do anyting and I think it’s wrong to “own” someting like this aswell it should be free to the world to see!
Think you’d enjoy flying your plane around Wolf Creek Crater here in Aus, it’s just such a stunning place all round.
I was there once as a kid…I do remember that nasty wind! I also remember the big meteorite fragment. The simulator and some of the security fence is new to me, though. 🙂
You have a good tast of music if you ask me xD
And nice job
ah, not seen that site before, thanks very much =D
Lake Manicougan. Good one! If you go to fas . org, you’ll find an online resource that allows you to examine impact structures on earth. It also is a great resource on planetary imaging.
Yeah but that was a one off just bolstering in the arms race by the Soviets
Tip: a band-aid (plaster) stuck over the microphone of your camera can reduce wind noise.
that is a shame but then if you want to see a really big crater you need google earth/maps – go to:
51.388504, -68.704119
Well you can thank whoever named it. It’s a private thing anyway, so it’s all commercialized and they can name it whatever they want cause most people can’t tell a meteor from a meteorite, they just come to see how “awesome” it is and buy crater-shaped paper weights (or something). It’s a bit sad.
yea … which is wrong!
The official name of it is Meteor Crater.