• The meteor that created Meteor Crater was traveling about 40,000 miles per hour, or more than 11 miles per second
• The meteor that created Meteor Crater was about 150 feet in diameter
• Meteor Crater is more than 4,000 feet across, about 3/4 of a mile
• At the time of impact, Meteor Crater was about 700 feet deep, and could have engulfed a 60-story building. Due to erosion of the time and walls of the crater, the crater today is 550 feet deep.
• Twenty football games on 20 football fields could be played at the same time on the floor of Meteor Crater, while two million spectators watched from its rocky slopes.

Meteor Crater

 

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