I visited it once and the story is that the meteorite came in at a steep angle and is buried under one of the rims.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: mixent <mix...@bigpond.com> To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Sat, Feb 23, 2013 10:51 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:rather big fragment of the Chelyabinsk is discovered (fwd) In reply to Vorl Bek's message of Sat, 23 Feb 2013 19:27:07 -0500: Hi, [snip] >And I have always wondered about Meteor Crater in Arizona; I never >understood why a little digging did not expose a big chunk of >extraterrestrial rock at the centre of the crater; but there is >nothing. Maybe it went deeper and molten rock covered it, so all you see now in the bottom of the crater is the cooled and solidified crust that was molten at the time. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
