Meteor Crater - Visitor Center - Arizona, USA.
N 35° 01.992 W 111° 01.296
12S E 498029 N 3876725
The Meteor Crater Visitor Center is the gateway to discovering the wonders of the best preserved meteorite impact site on the planet. The center also features an Astronaut Memorial Park. Located on the rim of the crater in Northern Arizona.
Waymark Code: WMMXG5
Location: Arizona, United States
Date Posted: 11/20/2014
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The Visitor Discovery Center is approx. 20 miles west of Winslow, Arizona. The Center is said to be the most extensive interactive display of meteor impact science of its type in the world.
"It includes guest controlled computer simulations, a meteorite fragment weighing over 1400 lbs.; artefacts from early exploration and scientific study of the crater; high-tech graphics of space, meteorites and asteroids, and the solar system; plus exhibits from Apollo astronaut training and asteroid collisions worldwide and on other planets.
Meteor Crater’s friendly and fascinating gift shop offers a wide variety of gift and souvenir items from fossils and dinosaurs to astronauts and spacecraft.
Focusing on the unique Meteor Crater experience, gifts and souvenirs include Native American and gem jewellery, authentic fossils, astronaut ice cream and mission patches, space toys, games, postcards, space and geology science kits, books, home decorations, and Meteor Crater t-shirts, sweatshirts and hats.
The Subway® sandwich shop restaurant in the Visitor Center offers lunch, snacks and soft drinks with indoor seating for the whole family.
An actual Apollo test capsule and American Astronaut Wall of Fame are the highlights of the Astronaut Memorial Park outside the gift shop." Text Source: (
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Photos of the crater mostly from space or birds eye views due to the size: (
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