It Fell From the Sky
Jonathan Blair / Corbis
Hole in the Desert
Much smaller and younger than Gosses Bluff, Arizona's Meteor Crater is also known as Barringer Crater, in honor of Daniel Barringer, the man who first suggested it was formed by the collision of a meteor with the Arizona desert around 50,000 years ago.
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