This is so cool. I remember going here when I was a kid.
50 000 years ago a meteor the size of the parking lot our bus is parked in sped at 18 miles/second and crashed into the earth creating this hole behind the girls. You can fit 20 football fields in it while millions of fans watch the games from it's slopes. Or, for those of you who know it, you could plunk Blomidon into it. It's nearly a mile across, and 550 feet deep. It's 2.4 miles around (translate to metric on your own!). Eugene Shoemaker (of the Shoemaker-Levy comet) did the research that confirmed the crater is the result of meteor impact and not from volcanic activity. He also trained the astronauts here in geology. His ashes are on the moon.
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