Impact!

We stopped at Meteor Crater today.  They advertise this as the best preserved and first proven meteorite impact site.  It’s big.  They say that 20 football fields would fit in the base and a 60-story building would not reach the rim.  At the bottom they have a 6’ high wood astronaut (the astronauts going to the moon trained here) that can only be seen with binoculars. It's on the right side of the fence near the flag. 

 While the 50,000 year old crater is big, the meteor was only 150 feet diameter.  Most of this broke up so the picture shows the biggest meteorite they ever found.