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| Meteor Crater 14km from Interstate 40 |
When driving 60km east from Flagstaff on the Interstate 40 you have the chance to visit a real meteor impact crater. It's the famous and well preserved Meteor Crater (other common names are Canyon Diablo Crater and Barrington Crater).
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| Panorama of the Meteor Crater |
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| At the bottom of the crater previous mining activities are still visible aswell as a astronaut plaque |
The crater is the result of an impact 50.000 years ago by an object (asteroid) of 50m, a weight of 300.000 tons and a speed of 12km/s. The result is enormous : a crater 1,2 km in diameter and a depth of 170m. The rim around the crater is 45m above the ground level.
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| Holsinger Meteorite - 639kg - Visitor Center Meteor Crater |
The biggest piece found of this Ni-Fe meteor is a meteorite called the Holsinger meteorite and has a weight of 639kg and can be seen in the Visitor Center of Meteor Crater. Last year I visited Adler Planetarium in Chicago which shows a smaller fragment of 460kg of the same meteorite.
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| Fragment of Meteorite - Meteor Crater - presented in Chicago Adler Planetarium |
