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access to the bottom is generally limited to scientists.

I recently reread the list of priorities I heard at the Russian Federal Space Agency, and asteroid protection was there, top of the list...

And while researching the Apollo Goodwill Disc, I found this quote from a 2001 interview at JSC:

"it's so small, it's very colorful -- you know, you see an ocean and gaseous layer, a little bit, just a tiny bit, of atmosphere around it. And, compared with all the other celestial objects -- which, in many cases, are much more massive, more terrifying -- it looks like it couldn't put up a very good defense against a celestial onslaught." — Neil Armstrong

This crater was formed in a fraction of a second as 175 million tons of limestone and bedrock were uplifted, forming the mile-wide crater rim in the formerly flat terrain. The meteorite was only 150 ft. wide.

For a sense of scale, if this hit Kansas City, the blast radius would take out the entire city.
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Hiking to the bottom of Meteor Crater

Author Steve Jurvetson from Menlo Park, USA

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