Curious. Have scientists ever drilled into one of these sights to get to the meteor?
I lived for some years in that area and didn’t know about this.
Cool site. Thank you for posting this.
Da Moin.
By the same logic, how do you pronounce "Des Plaines"?
Da Plane! Da Plane!
(Sorry, 1970s "Fantasy Island" TV reference.)
I live there. The locals pronounce it phonetically Des like Mess. And planes like Plains.
Similar, but I think larger, buried crater called the Manson Crater in Iowa.
These craters in prairie soils are essentially filled in and can’t really be seen with the eye.
It takes some underground examination of bedrock like deep well drilling to discover the bedrock anomalies.
There is the Sierra Madera astrobleme near Ft. Stockton, TX. You can stop at the crater rim on the highway (US 385) and see the rebound peak in the distance. Most of the crater has filled in and the rim is only a few feet higher than the fill.
Florida has a big one too...
Was the Gulf of Mexico formed by a meteor?
The Gulf of Mexico is too large to have been formed by a meteor impact. However, the Chicxulub crater, which is believed to be the largest meteorcrater on the earth, is found off the Yucatan Peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico.
