The Unwondering Project
Top 10 Meteorite Impact Craters in America
Ten places we think are worth the trip, hand-picked, not an exhaustive list, just a place to start.
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Ten places we think are worth the trip, hand-picked, not an exhaustive list, just a place to start.
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Best-preserved impact crater on Earth, 3,900 feet across and 560 feet deep, punched out 50,000 years ago and still looks fresh
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A 550-foot-wide dent in the West Texas scrub you can walk across in ten minutes
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An 85-million-year-old asteroid strike into a shallow sea, now a 5-mile ring of hills you can drive and climb to Bald Knob for the view across the rim
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A prehistoric snake-shaped effigy mound sits directly on top of a crater rim nobody explained for over a century
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A 3-mile-wide bowl of rock strata twisted completely upside down, shocked quartz found in 2007 points to a bygone impact
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The only US city built inside the bowl of a meteor crater
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An 8-mile-wide ring of jumbled peaks rising out of flat West Texas desert, with highway signs marking where you cross into and out of the impact zone
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