Meteor crater (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

Meteor crater

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Meteor Crater in Arizona -- 3,900-foot wide and 560-foot deep -- was created about 50,000 years ago by a 160-foot meteorite.

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Ioana Patringenaru/University of California San Diego

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