The asteroid that hit Arizona and created Meteor Crater is reported to be roughly 130 feet or 40 meters wide.
The Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona was formed about 50,000 years ago.
It has been estimated that Meteor Crater was formed about 50,000 years ago.
We have a thick gaseous atmosphere that tends to burn up most meteors as they fall through it, The occasional large one that makes it to the ground and creates a crater has the crater eroded away by the action of weather over a period of time. Only the newest craters (like Meteor Crater in Arizona, about 40,000 years old) are still visible.
Giant meteors have hit the Earth many times. Probably the most destructive - so far - was Chicxulub which "may" have been the cause of the dinosaurs extinction.The most notable crater in the US is - not surprisingly - called meteor crater. Located in the Arizona desert, near Winslow.
So far as astronomers can tell, cratering events on planetoid surfaces are caused by meteoroid or cometary impacts only. The were very, very common in the early days of our solar system, right after planet formation, and have slowed down considerably since then. The most obvious recent large crater-producing event is Meteor Crater in Arizona, believed to have been about 40,000 years ago.
Arizona meteor crater is 0.737 miles or 1.186 kilometers in diameter.
Arizona, USA.The most famous well known Meteor Crater is in northern Arizona in the USA.
Meteor Crater is near Winslow, Arizona.
Meteor Crater was formed by a meteor strike, not a guided missile from space. Call it a random act of nature.
the barringer crater is located in Arizona
Meteor Crater located about 40 miles east of Flagstaff.
Meteor crater, located in central-north Arizona, just off of I-40, east of Flagstaff.
about 1 mile wide
Arizona.
the meteor gone the crater is the grand canyon
There is one in Arizona. Meteor Crater. See Link
That's the "Barringer Meteor Crater", alongside I-40. Read all about the crater, and see a great aerial photo of it in the related links.