Place to see: Meteor Crater, Meteor City, Arizona, United States
Meteor Crater
The impact crater from the Barringer meteor.
About this place:
The Barringer crater was created about 50,000 years ago when a meteorite that was about 150 feet wide smashed into earth. The crater is now about a mile wide and nearly 600 feet deep. There is a visitor center and a several tours that take you around the rim of the crater. In the 60s the crater was used to train astronauts for the moon landing, as it was the closest analog that they could find to the moon.
Interstate 40, Exit 233
Meteor City, Arizona, 86047 US
Telephone: 800-289-5898
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Discovered by Paul Cloutier
on 4 November 2007.
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