Meteor Crater

Each one is a wonder of the world, I think.

Obviously, we're But we're going to do some other cool stuff too, like Meteor Crater, which is the best preserved meteor crater in the world.

It's awesome.

It's eerie.

system there.

Yeah.

Anyway, the next place that we went to, it's called Meteor Crater, Barringer's Meteor Crater.

It's only about like an hour and a half from Grand Canyon, but almost no one goes there comparatively.

Now, because of the remote location and the political upheaval in Russia at the time, no scientific expedition reached the site until 1927, nearly 20 years later.

Led by Russian mineralogist Leonid Kulik, the team expected to find a massive impact crater similar to the Barringer Crater in Arizona.

Instead, what they found was surreal.

At the epicenter, a forest of trees stood perfectly upright, but they were entirely stripped of their bark and branches, looking like a forest of telephone poles.

The logic of Tunguska is a battle between magnitude and evidence.

Usually, when something hits with a force of fifteen million tons of explosives, it leaves a scar on the planet.

The Barringer Crater in Arizona, for example, was caused by an object smaller than the Tunguska bolide, yet it left a hole nearly a mile wide because it was made of iron and hit the ground.

The Tunguska object was the perfect ghost, large enough to level a forest but composed of materials or entering at such a specific angle that allowed it to vanish into the air.

Now, because of the remote location and the political upheaval in Russia at the time, no scientific expedition reached the site until 1927, nearly 20 years later.

Led by Russian mineralogist Leonid Kulik, the team expected to find a massive impact crater similar to the Barringer Crater in Arizona.

Instead, what they found was surreal.

At the epicenter, a forest of trees stood perfectly upright, but they were entirely stripped of their bark and branches, looking like a forest of telephone poles.

The logic of Tunguska is a battle between magnitude and evidence.

Usually, when something hits with a force of 15 million tons of explosives, it leaves a scar on the planet.

The Barringer Crater in Arizona, for example, was caused by an object smaller than the Tunguska bolide, yet it left a hole nearly a mile wide because it was made of iron and hit the ground.

The Tunguska object was the perfect ghost, large enough to level a forest but composed of materials or entering at such a specific angle that allowed it to vanish into the air.

I didn't get to watch much of it.

I was in Flagstaff, and actually I was at the Meteor Crater with my family, looking at a giant hole in the ground, which is pretty cool, don't get me wrong.

Like, it's pretty sweet.

But there are a lot of players in town, like a lot of former players, a handful of really high-profile recruits.

Sasmita called it one of the most memorable stops of her trip.

The next morning began with a visit to the Barringer Meteor Crater.

This is one of the best-preserved meteor impact sites on Earth.

About 50,000 years ago, an iron and nickel asteroid slammed into the desert with a force far greater than any modern weapon.

Now, because of the remote location and the political upheaval in Russia at the time, no scientific expedition reached the site until 1927, nearly twenty years later.

Led by Russian mineralogist Leonid Kulik, the team expected to find a massive impact crater similar to the Barringer Crater in Arizona.

Instead, what they found was surreal.

At the epicenter, a forest of trees stood perfectly upright, but they were entirely stripped of their bark and branches, looking like a forest of telephone poles.

The logic of Tunguska is a battle between magnitude and evidence.

Usually, when something hits with a force of 15 million tons of explosives, it leaves a scar on the planet.

The Barringer Crater in Arizona, for example, was caused by an object smaller than the Tunguska bolide, yet it left a hole nearly a mile wide because it was made of iron and hit the ground.

The Tunguska object was the perfect ghost, large enough to level a forest but composed of materials or entering at such a specific angle that allowed it to vanish into the air.

Now, because of the remote location and the political upheaval in Russia at the time, no scientific expedition reached the site until 1927, nearly twenty years later.

Led by Russian mineralogist Leonid Kulik, the team expected to find a massive impact crater similar to the Barringer Crater in Arizona.

Instead, what they found was surreal.

At the epicenter, a forest of trees stood perfectly upright, but they were entirely stripped of their bark and branches, looking like a forest of telephone poles.

The logic of Tunguska is a battle between magnitude and evidence.

Usually, when something hits with a force of 15 million tons of explosives, it leaves a scar on the planet.

The Barringer Crater in Arizona, for example, was caused by an object smaller than the Tunguska bolide, yet it left a hole nearly a mile wide because it was made of iron and hit the ground.

The Tunguska object was the perfect ghost, large enough to level a forest but composed of materials or entering at such a specific angle that allowed it to vanish into the air.

I'm for my first time, the grand Canyon saw the, um, the Baron Berenger crater.

okay I'm not sure if I'm saying the name right but the crater the meteor crater where the meteor fell and hit the earth in Arizona and it made this huge fucking crater and it was really cool to see that um What else? Oh, we went and saw the Painted Desert and the Petrified Forest, which are kind of in the same place.

Did

you crack a geode? Did you buy a geode and crack it?