If that’s what 100,000 tons does to the ground imagine what happens when your mamma falls over?
_kishin_ on
If it was 100k ton, then where is the actual meteor itself? Is it buried beneath the crater? Why aren’t they mining it?
tnfan6 on
The meteor almost hit the visitor center.
Green_Kick2708 on
Amazing
Thedarknight725 on
Dang, the visitors center is lucky, look how close they were to getting hit
Grooviemann1 on
If you’re ever remotely close, this is definitely worth visiting. There’s a small, but very cool visitor center/museum and looking into the crater is breathtaking.
LostBoyNav on
Wonder how long it’d take to fall from that height
84thPrblm on
Red means ‘stop’
Green means ‘go’
Yellow means ‘go very fast’
dunnkw on
To give you an idea of how much 100,000 tons weights. The average loaded freight train weighs between 5,000 and 15,000 tons. 5,000 for mixed freight like boxcars, automobiles, and lumber. And 15,000 tons for bulk commodities like 125 cars loaded with grain or coal.
fluffysmaster on
72scott72 on
My family took me there once when I was little. I respect it now but when I was 6, it was just a big hole in the ground.
grim1757 on
Did a side trip to see it, photos just can’t do it justice. It is quite amazing!
SmokinJoker46290 on
Ive been here many times cause I live in AZ. The sheer size of this hole is mind blowing
dan_mas on
If Arizona were a rainy place, that crater would probably be a massive, deep lake.
surfndrum on
What happened to the meteorite?? Is it there?
silentPANDA5252 on
Damm just missed it
Older_cyclist on
Been there and never could describe how big it is. This view is pretty good.
spazzyattack on
Jeff Bridges was picked up there by aliens in Starman. Good movie btw.
Pretty amazing sight. I would recommend the scheduled tour around the rim.
grassopolis on
50,000 years? surprised were even here after that. how much bigger was the one that killed the dinos?
Sabbathius on
The one I often think about is the crater on the back side of our moon. It’s 2500 km across. Now that’s a doozie.
LegWyne on
Are their any native American stories about this event? Indigenous Australians keep track of all these sort of occurrences with incredible detail. I’d love to read a native American story about this meteor event.
Ive been there. The size of the crater is breathtaking. It’s difficult to imagine the scale of the impact until your standing on it. Its worth a visit.
Fun fact, this is the second largest impact crater on earth, eclipsed only by the one OPs mom made when skydiving and her parachute failed to open.
vintage_hot_mess on
My family drove there once and you could tell, several miles before you even got to the crater, that something bizarre must have happened. That area is on a plateau, fairly flat. But as you get closer to the crater you start seeing these huge random lumpy globs of rock stuck onto it, some a few stories high. Like you dropped the pancake batter bowl and it splattered everywhere and now there’s random batter formations all over your kitchen floor. What didn’t vaporize in the impact *liquified*, and literally splashed onto the surrounding terrain for miles.
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If that’s what 100,000 tons does to the ground imagine what happens when your mamma falls over?
If it was 100k ton, then where is the actual meteor itself? Is it buried beneath the crater? Why aren’t they mining it?
The meteor almost hit the visitor center.
Amazing
Dang, the visitors center is lucky, look how close they were to getting hit
If you’re ever remotely close, this is definitely worth visiting. There’s a small, but very cool visitor center/museum and looking into the crater is breathtaking.
Wonder how long it’d take to fall from that height
Red means ‘stop’
Green means ‘go’
Yellow means ‘go very fast’
To give you an idea of how much 100,000 tons weights. The average loaded freight train weighs between 5,000 and 15,000 tons. 5,000 for mixed freight like boxcars, automobiles, and lumber. And 15,000 tons for bulk commodities like 125 cars loaded with grain or coal.
My family took me there once when I was little. I respect it now but when I was 6, it was just a big hole in the ground.
Did a side trip to see it, photos just can’t do it justice. It is quite amazing!
Ive been here many times cause I live in AZ. The sheer size of this hole is mind blowing
If Arizona were a rainy place, that crater would probably be a massive, deep lake.
What happened to the meteorite?? Is it there?
Damm just missed it
Been there and never could describe how big it is. This view is pretty good.
Jeff Bridges was picked up there by aliens in Starman. Good movie btw.
https://preview.redd.it/nbcnjzucoa2g1.jpeg?width=3651&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd1cc1802375bd81055153b1cd7604161b4671bb
Pretty amazing sight. I would recommend the scheduled tour around the rim.
50,000 years? surprised were even here after that. how much bigger was the one that killed the dinos?
The one I often think about is the crater on the back side of our moon. It’s 2500 km across. Now that’s a doozie.
Are their any native American stories about this event? Indigenous Australians keep track of all these sort of occurrences with incredible detail. I’d love to read a native American story about this meteor event.
Big Bada Boom 💥
Onyone got hurt?
God dammit Saitama
Phx to DEN flies right over this
Cleo Abram made an explanation video about this
https://youtube.com/shorts/C2QjjObC7cc?si=JNQnRaQ6tIvKmL-a
50,000 years ago is really recent.
Why is there no vegetation? Is it in a desert?
Ive been there. The size of the crater is breathtaking. It’s difficult to imagine the scale of the impact until your standing on it. Its worth a visit.
Doesn’t anyone replace divots anymore?
https://preview.redd.it/nvb7t2nuqa2g1.jpeg?width=387&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=20df1b0938a1ed1257ea3c57d87352cb5d659310
I bet that woke up the dead!
Fun fact, this is the second largest impact crater on earth, eclipsed only by the one OPs mom made when skydiving and her parachute failed to open.
My family drove there once and you could tell, several miles before you even got to the crater, that something bizarre must have happened. That area is on a plateau, fairly flat. But as you get closer to the crater you start seeing these huge random lumpy globs of rock stuck onto it, some a few stories high. Like you dropped the pancake batter bowl and it splattered everywhere and now there’s random batter formations all over your kitchen floor. What didn’t vaporize in the impact *liquified*, and literally splashed onto the surrounding terrain for miles.
https://preview.redd.it/guwoc8j9va2g1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f869badfba7638f734e8d473b63a77744e840998
My visit
To think, the meteor that created this was only the size of a school bus. The one that wiped out the dinosaurs was supposedly the size of Manhattan
So WTF happened to the 100,000 ton iron-nickel meteorite??
Ive been there…there’s a Subway sandwich shop next to the visitors center (which I thought was funny since there is nothing else around).
No fucking way it weighed 100,000 tons. 98,000? MAYBE, on an unusually cloudy day. Who are they trying to fool?!
i’ve seen it from 38,000 ft and it’s pretty damn impressive from there.
that video is even more impressive though
That is one big hole in the ground, I have always been meaning to go see.