METEOR CRATER, NORTHERN ARIZONA, USA
(Barringer Meteorite Crater)

It has been very nearly one hundred years since  D. M. Barringer first climbed the slope of Meteor Crater and gazed into its gapping expanse. He was captured by it, and it became one of the focuses of his life. Each year visitors from all over our world come to the Crater and look with the same wonder at what can result when the Earth is struck by an asteroid. A hundred years ago there was no proven crater on the Earth formed by an impact. Today, craters are being added to the list regularly and it is a long list. Some are ancient with little remaining, some are young likely having happen when people were present. Many are larger than Meteor Crater, but all have been proven to be the result of impacts by much of what was first learned at Meteor Crater in Arizona.

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