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Meteor Crater draws visitors to northern Arizona for Asteroid Day

WINSLOW, AZ (AZFamily) — An asteroid hit the Earth in what is now known as northern Arizona about 50,000 years ago. It left a giant crater that draws people from all over the world. Nestled between ...
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For the first time, visitors to Meteor Crater can hike to the bottom

Visitors to the Meteor Crater attraction have long been able to see the hole and look down into it. But beginning May 16, ...
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Arizona’s Meteor Crater still yields new clues 50,000 years later

Researchers continue to extract fresh scientific findings from Barringer Meteorite Crater in Arizona, a bowl-shaped depression carved by a space rock roughly 50,000 to 60,000 years ago. Recent ...
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Impact That Made Meteor Crater May Have Triggered Giant Grand Canyon Landslide

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...