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Feb 20, 2018 16:18:54   #
Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast
 
Cruising past Winslow AZ last week we decided to stop and take a look at Meteor Crater and its impressive. Tried a Panoramic photo of this site from the observation point since the impact crater is approx 4000' X 5000', and 560' deep.... its one big hole. What's amazing is this only happened ~50,000 years ago and the meteor that hit was small in size, 150' across, but had a mass of 150,000 Tons and traveling at 8 miles a second....just under the I-40 speed limit I suspect ☺️☺️ Explosion was estimated the equivalent to 10 Million Tons of TNT.


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Feb 20, 2018 16:26:01   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 

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Feb 20, 2018 16:33:37   #
rdrechsler Loc: Channel Islands Harbor, CA
 
Interesting spot. I've been there a couple of times in my life. Good image to remember it by. Thanks.

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Feb 20, 2018 19:38:32   #
Lady Red Loc: Puget Sound, WA
 
Impressive. Is that a man hole cover down there towards center bottom?

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Feb 20, 2018 19:41:43   #
DeanS Loc: Capital City area of North Carolina
 
I was there in 1965- hasn’t changed much in53 years!😎😎😎

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Feb 20, 2018 20:00:51   #
Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast
 
Lady Red wrote:
Impressive. Is that a man hole cover down there towards center bottom?


From what I understand Lady Red, there were originally some mining years ago and then explorations going on looking for more of the meteor. Now its just scientific exploration going on since its been preserved.

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Feb 20, 2018 20:01:34   #
Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast
 
DeanS wrote:
I was there in 1965- hasn’t changed much in53 years!😎😎😎


Absolutely Dean I'm sure it hasn't other than better preservation Cheers

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Feb 21, 2018 06:26:04   #
Ramm Francis
 
That is very nice. Amazing, the power of nature.

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Feb 21, 2018 06:59:11   #
Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast
 
Ramm Francis wrote:
That is very nice. Amazing, the power of nature.


Power of Nature...yes Ramm, wonderful and actually quite scary when you get down to it....especially this blast this 'small' meteor caused.

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Feb 21, 2018 07:59:05   #
JoAnneK01 Loc: Lahaina, Hawaii
 
Excelent photo. Wonder if there was any climate change i.e. global cooling following this incident? Mahalo for sharing.

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Feb 21, 2018 08:06:54   #
Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast
 
JoAnneK01 wrote:
Excelent photo. Wonder if there was any climate change i.e. global cooling following this incident? Mahalo for sharing.


You're more than welcome JoAnne,.....50,000 years ago, I would image there was some impact, ~10,000,000 tons of tnt going off had to affect something.

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Feb 21, 2018 08:19:45   #
Swamp-Cork Loc: Lanexa, Virginia
 
Great pano, Blaster, and kind of puts our importance in perspective!

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Feb 21, 2018 08:25:55   #
Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast
 
Swamp-Cork wrote:
Great pano, Blaster, and kind of puts our importance in perspective!


Thanks Swamp Cork, it truly does

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Feb 21, 2018 16:33:13   #
Shaun Loc: Tucson, AZ
 
To put the size of this perspective, I know of least one pilot who has been down in the crater in a jet fighter doing 400Kts.

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Feb 21, 2018 17:21:30   #
Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast
 
Shaun wrote:
To put the size of this perspective, I know of least one pilot who has been down in the crater in a jet fighter doing 400Kts.


Neat Shaun, a quick dip down and out at 400kts

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