Is Meteor Crater the showcase for the impact hypothesis that astronomers and geologists claim? Evidence for an electrical event is too clear to be ignored.
Located 20 miles west of Winslow, Arizona USA, geologists confidently say the depression—more than 4,000 feet wide—was created 50,000 years ago when a giant rock plowed into the desert. The Meteor Crater Interactive Learning Center, which includes twenty-four exhibits, bills the crater as the “first proven, best-preserved meteorite crater on Earth”. The movie “Collisions and Impacts” plays twice an hour in their 80-seat theater, plus an impressive 1,406 pound meteorite fragment—the largest ever found in the area—is on prominent display.
An electrical explanation of Meteor Crater envisions an approaching bolide—a large meteor which explodes in the atmosphere—entered the strongest region of Earth’s electric field. Soon overwhelmed by prodigious internal electrical stress it started to fragment and discharge explosively.
It’s likely to have already blown apart before reaching the surface, for the same reason that comets explode millions of miles from the Sun and the Tunguska bolide exploded high in the earth’s atmosphere.
In the EU Model interpretation, fragments of a bolide reaching the surface intact will generally be scattered some distance from the crater(s) caused by the electrical discharge—NOT the usual artists’ “splatter” image of an asteroid or meteor impact based on how Standard Model experts interpret a mechanical impact.
Narrator and EU advocate Matt Finn is partial to the artistic impression of this sort with a lightning bolt included. From a Thunderbolts Picture of the Day article posted September 25, 2006.
