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Meteor Crater
These were taken shortly before I retired from
American Airlines in the summer of 2010. We were
flying back to San Jose from Dallas at 33,000 feet.
It was such a nice day for flying that I just had
to get some pictures of the crater. I can't count
the number of times I had flown over this beautiful
landmark. As pilots we tend to take these fantastic
views for granted
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Meteor Crater
Just about 50,000 years ago an asteroid weighing
several hundred thousand tons impacted the earth
near what is now Winslow, Arizona. The resulting
crater is more than 550 feet deep, has a circumference
of nearly 2.5 miles and is just shy of one mile across
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Meteor Crater
Most of the time the crater is hard to find from
the air as it hides in the myriad little shadows
that the small cumulus clouds cast. It's only a few
miles from Winslow, so if you can find that sleepy
community the crater is findable
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