Years ago, while flying over Arizona on a commercial flight to the east coast, I saw a depression in the earth from 30,000 feet. At home I looked up what it was and found it was a meteor crater.
Today, I had a chance to turn off of I-40 and take a look on my way to Sedona, AZ. It was a straight, flat and warm (92 degrees in the shade at the ticket window) drive to the visitor’s center on the rim of the crater.
50,000 years ago a meteor 150 feet in diameter crashed into the Arizona desert. It was traveling at 40,000 miles per hour creating a crater .75 mile across and 700 feet deep. It sent out a shock wave that destroyed everything for miles. Probably not unlike the shockwaves from our nuclear bombs exploded in World War II.
There is some concern that this is not the only time this will happen. The video presentation mentioned scientists whose job it is to track asteroids, meteors and comets which are headed toward earth. If there is a threat, there is hope that a solution can be found by governments to destroy the body before it reaches earth.
