ARE YOU AS SMART AS AN ELKMONT SIXTH GRADER?

Did you know that impact craters are the most widespread landform in our solar system? Elkmont's sixth graders do! 

These were caught investigating impact craters by dropping three different meteorite sizes from three different heights.  

As they tested the variables, it was noticed how far the rays traveled and how deep the craters went into the planets. Dropping things and creating a mess always makes learning so much fun!

* did you know the Gulf we all love to visit was formed by an impact crater?

impact point is black line circle

There is evidence that the Chicxulub Crater buried underneath the Yucatan Peninsula  is an ancient impact crater. According to a University of Arizona Chicxulub crater web page: "... a large 65 million years old impact crater was located on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. It is called Chicxulub - a Maya word that roughly translates as "tail of the devil."  The crater, now buried beneath a kilometer-thick sequence of sediments, ... appears to have a diameter of 145 to 180 km, which makes it one of the largest confirmed impact structures on Earth.