Buy a lot near Meteor Crater, build a building in the shape of a hemisphere with a restaurant and souvenir shop on it, paint a construction fence and write on it: "world's longest map of Route 66" - and you're an attraction and even gets its own freeway exit. However, the fence was painted by the well-known artist and Route 66 icon Bob Waldmire, who died in late 2009.
Barringer Crater (Meteor Crater)
The settlers of the American West found a large crater in the desert of the Colorado Plateau. Some geologists initially suspected a volcanic crater, but in 1905 mining engineer Barringer suggested the impact of a large iron meteorite as the explanation. Subsequent research confirmed this assumption. The impact of the meteorite took place about 50,000 years ago. The crater is currently about 1.5 kilometers in diameter and about 170 meters deep. The meteorite was 50 meters in diameter, weighed 300,000 tons and hit at a speed of around 40,000 km/h. All life was wiped out within a radius of four kilometers, the resulting fireball spread to 10 kilometers.
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