now we are heading to the meteor crater
uh originally i was going to take kuma
with me here not that she can go inside
but they do have a dog outside kennel
area or you they could watch your dog
for you if you have your own crate
but since um that was the plan for
yesterday when we were going to petrify
petrified forest national park uh if we
were going to do that on the way back so
we're just going to have kuma stay there
but since you know
we're just leaving from flagstaff to the
meteor crater now
uh it's approximately 40 minutes
actually what 30 minutes 35 minutes 35
minutes so it's about 35 minutes to
drive from flagstaff to the media crater
site and all you do is really go on i-40
straight and then you'll see an exit
sign that says meteor crater it's a
super easy drive but i was very
interested in this place because it this
meteor
hit this site 50 000 years ago and it's
this huge hole that's a mile wide that
you can check out you could view it from
inside or outside obviously i want to go
outside to look at it
i've never actually seen a meteor crater
site like this i know there are some
places that have this
but i this is my first time ever seeing
one how about yeah i've never been to
one either the first one
i mean i just think it's so crazy you
know that
something from space came to earth and
created that huge hole there's also a
museum inside too where you can learn a
little bit more about space and
the meteor i'm sure so yeah
we'll go see what it's all about
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okay we are approaching a meteor crater
building
we keep seeing signs like it's like
two two miles to impact five miles to
impact it's like it's like a
countdown that's cute yeah it's really
cute that they did that but yeah again
like you get off i-40 and then you go on
this straight road straight highway in
half a mile prepare to park your car you
will need to walk to your destination
from there i like how it tells us that
we need to park and then walk to the
destination
it's a pretty big site yeah it is it's a
big building i didn't think we'd be
going uphill a little bit which we're
doing right now is like a little bit of
an incline
yeah there it is prepare for impact now
we're here because there's no more like
uh
numbers yeah
experience the impact and no drones
permitted
there's actually quite a lot of cars
here and there's cars behind us as well
pretty popular but there's plenty of
parking prepare to park your car you
will need to walk to your destination
from there we got it so that's the
building there
but look at the view
out there looks really nice
like it's so flat around here that you
could see miles and miles out and so
they have this
corner here for pets if you're traveling
with pets you could leave them in this
nice little area here called pet ramada
oh they're individual cages okay that's
interesting yeah
so yeah if you have oh there are dogs in
here hi
hi oh they're so cute last night that
they provide that but i'm not sure kuma
would have enjoyed that
she would have definitely felt like i
abandoned her there i think captain and
arizona would be kept black well
probably captain would bark the entire
time
he's so loud but it is nice that they
provide that and i really do appreciate
that they do this huh did you say
scanning the tickets is here yeah
go ahead and scan your ticket here
all right so this is for you i bought
tickets online because you saved two
dollars
it's actually 22 dollars for adults um
but if you buy it online at vance that's
20
okay so just go upstairs
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i feel like i'm at disneyland
like mission space
epcot i feel like i'm going on that ride
yeah they only have 12 seats available
for each showing and then they have
three motionless seats i guess for
people who can't handle a little bit of
motion
so we made it on the second round the
second line second group
to go see it with the motion seats
because i want to see i want to see it
with the motion here we
go oh wow
this is huge i wasn't expecting it to be
this big i feel like i'm in a real space
center
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two
one
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is
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one
two
all one yeah
all right so we just got out of the 4d
uh ride with where we're going to space
yeah started from the crater and i went
up to space destroyed some planets and
uh asteroids actually i think we just
destroyed asteroids not planets yeah
into little pieces yeah
um but it was it was quite fun you know
i think it's really fun for kids too
because as you're like 4d basically
means as you're watching the screen your
seat moves too and then
like press compression like air yeah
you're like
oh cool lots of like maybe like lights
like there's some strobe lights lights
yeah so yeah it was entertaining so once
you exit um
that theater you come back out there's
like restrooms and then now we're here
where the spaceship is so i'm gonna find
out what this is
there's actually a nice view over here
too
this test capsule named boilerplate 29a
never flew into space
instead the capsule was built in 1965 to
test the systems that helped apollo
space capsules flow upright after splash
down at sea huh
so like a testing capsule
oh here's a map actually
so yeah
so we parked went to ticket entry
we're here right now we just did the
tour over here yeah went to the theater
and now we're gonna go check out the
actual under the discovery center yeah
there you go right there
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thank you
the whole thing or meteorite is the
largest discovered fragment of the 150
foot
meteor that created meteor crater was
traveling roughly at 40 000 miles an
hour
11 miles per second
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i guess this is where you can see it
from the inside if you don't want to go
outside now we're going to go to the
crater
here we go there we go
looks like we got to go up some more
steps
these are the lower observation decks
and they have upper ones up here
right yeah
it's kind of tiring it's a little tiring
i mean i did say the air is thinner up
here yeah
i mean i do find it a little bit harder
to breathe yeah
wow
it's kind of crazy to see those people
down there now
this is the crater
from above
so we were just up at the tallest point
where you can observe the
meteor crater and now we're going to go
down a little bit to the lower
deck yeah just to see what the
difference is looks like they got some
telescopes or something down there
binoculars
but yeah actually going up these stairs
we were
we're starting out of breath
and a lot of people were it wasn't just
us but i believe it's because you're
going up into thinner air so it's harder
to catch your breath
because it happened to me in um
uh colorado when i went up to like 10
000 feet yeah i was taking short breaths
and right now it's um it's 55 degrees
so it's like it's a little cold but in
the sun it feels fine it feels nice in
the sun but it is a little chilly
without the sun yeah
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it feels good right here because the sun
looks like it feels good it looks like
there's another observation deck down
there yeah this one goes all the way
oh it goes down okay yeah we were up
there
now we're going to the lower deck let's
see what they have here
so yeah you can get a closer look here
at
the crater
and then they have something
where it says house size rock there's
like a rock in the distance that it
points to
do you see it mm-hmm
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is this fun or what this one's a little
bit hard to see yeah but i do see it
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these are the children of danielle
morrow behringer the first to identify
the origin of the behringer meteorite
crater they opened the crater to the
public in the early 1930s through the
behringer crater company
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we also have a gift shop here
stones
candy's looking at some gemstones those
are writing my class remember i told you
it was all it was actually rock class
but they were all like tiny versions so
i had that in my rock kit i have this i
have this too
candy's famous from that it's like
this was in the rock kit this was two
yeah i'm just like oh i had all these in
my rocket
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just got done with uh
touring
yeah exploring the behringer museum
meteor
crate museum
meteor yeah it's such a tongue twister
media creator maybe you're a creator
and museum and
and it's like on the side yeah
well we found out it used to be just the
media creator site there was no museum
or anything like that and it was just
that so and it used to be free yeah
which we didn't know that yeah we
actually learned a lot from paul who was
the attendant at that 4d
theater um and while we're waiting in
line he gave us some history behind
that uh museum
yeah because i was looking at the
pamphlet that's a new 4d
theater and i'm like oh so how new is it
he's like eight years ago and i'm like
oh okay that's not that new
but eight years ago is not that long ago
when you think about when they you know
built the site for the public um i think
it was like what in the 1930s
or something like that when they made it
available for the public to see
um and actually the story was
interesting too and kind of sad that the
guy that discovered it behringer who the
museum inside is named after
he discovered it in like 1903 and um he
tried to for 26 years he tried to
convince the public that something from
the outer space created that
yeah none of the scientists like he was
trying to convince scientists and no one
believed him and nobody believed him
yeah they didn't believe it 26 years of
his life he tried to convince people and
nobody believed him
but now he dedicated that site to him
because he's the one who said no guys
this is from the space i swear it really
is but we're just talking about it like
how would somebody from the early 1900s
and know something like that that's
pretty incredible so there's like little
things you could do in there there's
that 40 theater there's actually a tour
you can do too there's a tour guide that
takes you out
but they only do it at certain times we
kind of missed the one at i think it was
like around two o'clock because we want
to do the theater too but it's an hour
and a half yeah aaron has a long time
for a tour
and it's a lot of walking so in the
winter time they extend it to an hour
and a half because it's less heat but in
the summer time they reduce the time of
the tour to like an hour or something
like that maybe even less so yeah it's
there if you want to do a tour
but they do have a discovery center
where they have an exhibit of
you know giving you information about
the meteor um about space in general and
about you know the history of behringer
all in all i think it was like a really
good experience
i enjoyed it i really did enjoy i
actually didn't think i would spend that
long there i was imagining i would spend
like an hour but we actually spent
a little over two hours there and of
course the meteor crater itself the
impacted site was amazing in itself i
mean that's ultimately what you know
you're there to see is that site when
you see it in person you're just like
wow
and in my mind i'm just like this is so
unreal that something from space created
this huge hole so i would say if you go
make a visit here um
plan about two hours spending time there
especially if you do the theater
ride
i would say
it'd be about two hours but if you don't
do it probably an hour and a half
and if you do the tour it'll probably be
two and a half hours actually that's
what paul said it would probably be two
and a half hours total
visiting time if you do the tour
i think the tour would be good we just
didn't have the time to do it
so chris thought were you positively
impacted all right i was positively
impacted by this place it was a great
time it was
we sound so fake there
well they kept on using these puns like
yeah they're so funny and then as we're
leaving uh they have a sign that said
were you positively impacted rate us on
facebook instagram and other social
channels yeah it was cute the puns were
cute it was it was really cute so i'm
definitely going to give a positive
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