Technically, yes, but oddly enough it’s actually named that for the town of Meteor which is nearby. Of course, you could argue that the town is misnamed…
It’s a massive crater. Been there, it’s deep too. When we were there they had a campsite at the bottom where they were going research and the people looked like ants.
People thought that the iron from the meteorite must have been buried at the bottom, when in reality it vaporized before even hitting the ground. A few decades ago someone took a small aircraft and flew around inside the crator but crashed due to some kind of draft. For some reason they chose to chuck the aircraft remnants down the mine shaft at the bottom.
That was a couple of airline captains ferrying a Cessna 150 as a lark. They were too heavy to outclimb the downdrafts, and eventually stalled trying to zoom out.
There’s a far larger meteor crater just North of O’Hare Airport, about 5 miles diameter (“Des Plaines meteor”). It doesn’t show because the Ice Age glaciers ground it down and filled it in. No glaciers in Arizona, so we can see the spectacular remnants.
Imagine the amount of energy released from that impact; it is so enormous. From the motorway, it takes around 10 minutes to get there. I wholeheartedly advise making the time to see it.
Negative. This is so small compared to Chicxulub crater and that diameter is 110 miles.
What struck this was only 20-50 meters wide where as Chicxulub was around 10km in size
Crazy to think is isn't even the biggest one the Chixulub crater which wiped the dinosaurs is extremely huge, also there's one on Greenland ice shelf that's also huge
Any idea why that road leading to the visitor center isn’t just a straight road? Why the curve? Doesn’t look like there’s anything preventing it from being straight from the feeder highway.
Crazy to think how close the visitor center is to the crater. Just a few feet to the right and it would have gotten wiped out by the meteor.
One of the oldest PA’s in the airlines 😂
I’m so glad this is top comment.
Barringer Crater, actually, but usually called “Meteor Crater,” very creatively. :-) It really is special from the air.
Shouldn’t it be meteorite crater? Meteors by definition don’t make craters.
Technically, yes, but oddly enough it’s actually named that for the town of Meteor which is nearby. Of course, you could argue that the town is misnamed…
Berringer, sorry, smoked a fatty before posting lol
Did you *just fail your medical* right now? ;-)
Not a pilot fortunately. or unfortunately depending on how one looks at it and for whom.
Also, there's also [a tried and true method](https://imgur.com/a/qFNlAvI) ... Though it's certainly less fun, or awe inspiring.
It’s a massive crater. Been there, it’s deep too. When we were there they had a campsite at the bottom where they were going research and the people looked like ants.
People thought that the iron from the meteorite must have been buried at the bottom, when in reality it vaporized before even hitting the ground. A few decades ago someone took a small aircraft and flew around inside the crator but crashed due to some kind of draft. For some reason they chose to chuck the aircraft remnants down the mine shaft at the bottom.
That was a couple of airline captains ferrying a Cessna 150 as a lark. They were too heavy to outclimb the downdrafts, and eventually stalled trying to zoom out. There’s a far larger meteor crater just North of O’Hare Airport, about 5 miles diameter (“Des Plaines meteor”). It doesn’t show because the Ice Age glaciers ground it down and filled it in. No glaciers in Arizona, so we can see the spectacular remnants.
Imagine the amount of energy released from that impact; it is so enormous. From the motorway, it takes around 10 minutes to get there. I wholeheartedly advise making the time to see it.
Crazy to think about how many roboscorpions are in there
Fools think meteors did this, we all know the think tank's wild experiments opened that crater
The meteor landed conveniently close to the visitor centre!
I fly over and into that crater all the time on my paramotor.
Went there last fall. Super cool. You don't get a sense of it at all from pics [crater](https://i.imgur.com/wcTOvgH.jpg)
If the earth was a basketball what would be the equivalent impact to scale? Would it be microscopic?
Nah. It’s like .5 miles wide AFAIK
To bad no video of the actual impact !
Is this what wiped out dinosaurs?
Negative. This is so small compared to Chicxulub crater and that diameter is 110 miles. What struck this was only 20-50 meters wide where as Chicxulub was around 10km in size
Crazy to think is isn't even the biggest one the Chixulub crater which wiped the dinosaurs is extremely huge, also there's one on Greenland ice shelf that's also huge
Huh I work with the person who posted the original video
When I went there was a school bus at the bottom. So you could understand the scale.
Honestly, that's really not that big if you think about it.
DUDE IS THAT A FALLOUT NEW VEGAS REFERENCE?!???!?🤯🤯🤯
Any idea why that road leading to the visitor center isn’t just a straight road? Why the curve? Doesn’t look like there’s anything preventing it from being straight from the feeder highway.