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The Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona was formed about 50,000 years ago.

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182 miles taking this route:Go across to I-17; follow signs to I-17 NORTH.Take I-17 NORTH to I-40 EAST to ALBUQUERQUE at EXIT 340A in FLAGSTAFF.Take I-40 EAST to METEOR CRATER RD to METEOR CRATER NATURAL LANDMARK at EXIT 233; TURN RIGHT off the exit ramp onto Meteor Crater Rd.Take Meteor Crater Rd to the Meteor Crater Natural Landmark.


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All of them. Every year. You may be thinking of the most famous tourist attraction in Arizona, the Barringer Meteor Crater near Winslow, AZ.


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Some craters are caused by meteorites; for example, the Barringer Meteor Crater near Winslow, AZ, USA is probably the best known big crater. But craters can be caused by volcanoes or by explosions as well. Although, to be honest, a meteor crater is caused by an explosion, too, when kinetic energy is converted abruptly into heat.


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That depends on where the crater is, and how it formed. Meteor craters on the Moon or Mars? Nothing generally fills them up, and lunar craters are still visible after many hundreds of thousands of years. On Earth? A meteor crater will, eventually, fill with dust or dirt and water. A good number of meteor craters are visible as circular lakes. The Meteor Crater in Barringer, AZ is still empty after 50,000 years. Volcanic craters sometimes fill with lava, or with dirt and water. Crater Lake in Nevada is a .... lake, filled with .... water.


The name of the crater caused by a speeding mass of meteoric iron that smashed into the earth's crust in Arizona about 40000 years ago?

Meteor Crater, AZ. However, I personally think that the collectible alien-headed demitasse spoons available at the gift shop there are in poor taste.


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