About once a month, I receive an e-newsletter from the fun folks at RoadsideAmerica.com. Reports from the site’s editors and correspondents are always irreverent, but informative.
The latest edition has a story about longtime Route 66 attraction Meteor Crater, which is east of Flagstaff, Ariz. And I learned several things about it that I didn’t know before:
- That scientists once considered that big hole in the Arizona desert an extinct volcano, not the remnants of a meteor impact.
- The Meteor Crater site is not owned by the state or federal government, but privately.
- The site displays a 1,400-pound piece of the meteor, which is relatively puny compared to the gigantic rock that had to have struck the site and created that 4,000-foot-wide hole.
Meteor Crater’s official Web site is here.