New Full Rim Hike every Saturday at Meteor Crater | Meteor Crater & Barringer Space Museum

Join us for a special Full Rim Tour around Meteor Crater on December 21st at 12pm. Explore the wonders of this iconic site and learn about its incredible history. Space enthusiasts, this one’s for you! 🚀✨ Spots are limited, so be sure to register now at meteorcrater.com/events. #MeteorCrater #SpaceHistory #FullRimTour #AstronomyLovers #ExploreTheCrater #SpaceExploration #MeteorImpact #AstroTour #BucketListAdventure #PlanetaryScience #DiscoverSpace #CosmicWonders | Meteor Crater & Barringer Spac

MOTHER’S DAY METEOR: Dashcam footage captured a meteor shooting across the Western Australia sky in the early hours on Sunday. The Perth Observatory said that for the meteor to shine as brightly as it did, it “would have been about the size of a cricket ball to a basketball.” | CBS News

The best preserved meteor crater on earth! How big do you think the meteor was? ☄️ About 50,000 years ago, a rock fragment broke away from the asteroid belt and hurtled toward earth. The rock, composed of nickel and iron, was about __ meters across and weighed 300,000 tons. It was traveling at 12.8 kilometers per second. When it crashed into the plains of Arizona, it exploded with a force equal to 10 megatons or about 150 times the force of the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. The violence