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Aerial view of Meteor Crater, a ¾ mile (1.2 kilometers) wide hole in the Arizona desert formed approximately 50,000 years ago by the impact of a small iron-rich asteroid traveling at speeds exceeding 6 miles (10 kilometers) per second
c. 50,000 BCE: Arizona’s Meteor Crater – A Window into Earth’s Impact History

Meteor Crater near Flagstaff, Arizona, is a pristine geological site formed 50,000 years ago by an asteroid impact, offering insights into Earth's history with extraterrestrial collisions