People learning more about Wetumpka impact crater
The 28th annual Impact Crater Tour is giving people a chance to learn more about the meteor that changed the landscape forever.
A two-day event started today at Trinity Episcopal Church in Wetumpka.
The event started with a 30-minute presentation by experts who shared the history of the crater. Then, people boarded five vans to tour the site.
More than 300 people are expected to take these tours this year.
The meteor is estimated to have struck about 85 million years ago, in the worst natural disaster in the history of what would eventually become Alabama. The crater that is left behind is about five miles wide.
The meteor penetrated the Earth for 2,000 feet with an explosion greater than 175,000 nuclear bombs.
Auburn University geoscience students who studied under Dr. David King, who is responsible for a lot of the scientific evidence involving the crater, are the tour guides for the guests.
