MIDDLESBORO CRATER

                                              

                                                        MIDDLESBORO CRATER

Yes ,In Bell county Kentucky there is an  entire town built right in the remains of an ancient crater . It was once thought long ago to be an extinct volcano but now is believed By Geologists to be a meteor impact site. The theory is that a meteor more than 1,500 feet in diameter Hit here around 300 million years ago and the result was a massive crater approximately 3 miles in diameter. The Meteorite Hit with so much force it disintegrated on impact .The Population today is now around 10,334.