The crater was created about 50,000 years ago. At the time, the area was an open grassland dotted with woodlands inhabited by woolly mammoths and giant ground sloths. The object that excavated the crater was a nickel–iron meteorite about 50 meters (54 yards) across, which struck the plain at a speed of several kilometers per second. Impact energy has been estimated at about 10 megatons.
Meteor Crater lies at an elevation of about 1,740 m (5,709 ft) above sea level. It is about 1,200 m (4,000 ft) in diameter, some 170 m deep (570 ft), and is surrounded by a rim that rises 45 m (150 ft) above the surrounding plains.
From here, we took again a short-cut via the desert, which was quite exciting, because we almost run out of fuel. At the end we survived and found a petrol station in the middle of the wood in a village of having 50 habitants.
From here we drove all the way on the Route 66 back to Las Vegas. There are a lot of relics to seefrom old times, when the route was main connection between the north -east (Chicago) and the South -west (LA).
Route 66 was established on November 11, 1926—with road signs erected the following year, covering a total of 2,448 miles (3,940 km). It was recognized in popular culture by both a hit song and the Route 66 television show in the 1960s. It s end started in the beginning of the 60's, when a much better quality interstate highway system was built instead.
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