Meteor Crater & Barringer Space Museum is located about 40 miles east of downtown Flagstaff. The site is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. during the winter and from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the summer.

Some 50,000 years ago, a meteor struck near what is now Flagstaff, Arizona, leaving a 560-foot-deep crater. More recently, an ...

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