That massive crater in America...

[Griff]

...are there buildings at the bottom of it or not? whenever they show it on tv, it's always as a wide angle shot taken from the edge and all you can see of the bottom is some blurry grey patches that might be buildings or maybe it's just some grey rock.

[Smivs]

I think it's the Visitor Centre.

[Disembodied]

The visitor centre is on the rim I think: the thing at the bottom is a fence around some old mine workings:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Cra ... ater_today

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... bottom.jpg

[Smivs]

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[Pleb]

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It's the opposite of the above!

[Griff]

Ah, thanks for that! I've never seen pictures taken at the bottom of it before, i just assumed that everyone who went out there to film it decided not to bother climbing down in case they tore their jeans/plummeted 100m meters to their doom or something

[Commander McLane]

I think it's the Visitor Centre.

The initial asteroid in the video almost looks like one from AsteroidStorm.oxp.

[Steve]

I went there a few years ago and the Visitor Centre is definitely up on the rim, with some good viewing platforms nearby. IIRC you couldn't walk into the bowl of the crater unless you were part of a guided tour.

[Rxke]

wow, it's far more beautiful than i always thought it was

(Like Griff, I only saw those areal pics...)

[PhantorGorth]

Griff, you title this thread "That massive crater in America..." only I would disagree with the term massive. Out of those on the North American continent it isn't large at all.

Here is Meteor Crater, Arizona, USA courtesy of Google Maps.

Here is Lac Manicouagan, Quebec, Canada. Check the scales . Yes it is meteoric in origin.

[Cody]

If it was sitting in the road outside your house, PG... then it would be massive.

[PhantorGorth]

If it was sitting in the road outside your house, PG... then it would be massive.

So you have seen some of the pot holes in the roads in Edinburgh?

[Cody]

So you have seen some of the pot holes in the roads in Edinburgh?

Heh! On the subject of impact craters, they've just discovered evidence of the oldest one on Earth, apparently.

[Eric Walch]

Griff, you title this thread "That massive crater in America..." only I would disagree with the term massive. Out of those on the North American continent it isn't large at all.
Here is Lac Manicouagan, Quebec, Canada. Check the scales . Yes it is meteoric in origin.

One scale bigger is the Chicxulub crater I agree, it is no longer north America, but central America.

[marcusrg]

Well, that's not a big meteor, but the largest found in Brazil... the Bendengó, was found in Bahia, in 1784. 2,15 x 1,5 x 0,65 m. 5,36 tons. It is in Museu Nacional, in Rio de Janeiro.

http://www.museunacional.ufrj.br/MuseuN ... endego.htm