Second largest crater in the United States is right here in Odessa

The Odessa Meteor Crater was created 36,000 years ago but was first discovered in 1892. WEST ODESSA, Texas — 63,000 years ago this piece of land was just another piece of land.

That is until it was hit by something out of this world.

“They estimated this happened 63,000 years ago which was at the end of the Ice Age,” Odessa Meteor Crater Museum curator Douglas Neatherlin said. “It was about 100 feet deep at the time of impact. And then when the water and everything kind of swished back in it filled in quite a bit and then over the […]

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