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Barringer Crater is a meteor crater near Winslow, Arizona, a popular tourist destination, and the source of endless speculations about the origin of this perfectly round giant hole in the ground. The first person to venture a guess that the hole was created by an impact from a meteor was Daniel Barringer, who gave it the name and whose family also owns the crater and the surrounding land. The big hole is 4,100 feet in diameter and 570 feet deep. It was created about 50,000 years ago by an asteroid about 130 feet wide. Scientists believe that the asteroid was a part of a larger asteroid that broke apart while passing through the atmosphere.

Barringer and other researchers found pieces of this space rock made of iron weighing from one to 1,000 pounds in a six-mile-diameter area around the crater. The latest theory is that the remaining rock hit the Earth at about 26,800 mph, creating the popular Arizona crater. Barringer Crater is one of the must see places in Arizona.

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