The Arizona crater

The Arizona crater is a big meteor crater in Arizona.
The Arizona crater is located in the Northern part of Arizona. It is one of the few largest, well-preserved meteorite craters in the world.
Its depth is more than 180 meters, and the diameter is about 1220 meters, and the age of 50,000 years

There is an assumption that the occurrence of a bowl-shaped funnel was the fall of a meteorite, the size of not less than 60 meters. The explosion from the fall was incredibly powerful, a thousand times larger than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

For the first time the crater was discovered in the late XIX century, but his research began only in the early XX century, in Addition to metal fragments of various sizes, including dust, diamonds were also found.

There is also a version that the Arizona crater appeared after falling to earth UFO impressive size. This place by its parameters is an anomalous zone and attracts many researchers from around the world. In the area of the crater repeatedly noticed the glow of the air, as well as seen UFOs. It hangs over the crater, and people who have been in this place for a long time often get Arizona fever.
This disease is very unusual and affects for some reason visiting people, and in half of cases ends in death.

Today, like a hundred years ago, the Barringer family owns the Arizona crater. The crater continue to explore, it is removed in fantastic movies as set dressing, as well as regularly visited by tourists.