Greetings from a giant hole in the ground!
Meteor Crater is a hell of a thing!
Well, yes, it is an enormous hole in the ground. If that’s all you take away from it, then I suppose you may not be impressed.
If, on the other hand, you look a little deeper, and realize that people tried to figure out what that giant hole in the ground was for the first hundred or so years since it was discovered by caucasoid humans.
Now, the understanding seems to be pretty well clinched: 50,000 years ago (or so), an iron-nickle meteorite about 150 feet across crashed into the rocky plain of what is now Arizona moving at 20-something-thousand mile per hour and bored a 500-foot-deep hole, 4,000 feet wide. That’s a hell of a thing.
It’s hard to appreciate the scale of this giant hole in the ground, but this Astronaut may help:
Here’s me reading from the pamphlet:
Oh, and here’s me arriving in Winslow, AZ