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The crater has been named the Barringer Crater in honor of Daniel Barringer, who was first to suggest that it was produced by meteorite impact. It is also referred to simply as Meteor Crater. The crater is located approximately 69 km east of Flagstaff, near Winslow in the northern Arizona desert of the United States.
Author: James Tobin [Google] It has been very nearly one hundred years since D. M. Barringer first climbed the slope of Meteor Crater and gazed into its gapping expanse. He was captured by it, and it became one of the focuses of his life. Each year visitors from all over our world come to the Crater and look with the same wonder at what can result when the Earth is struck by an asteroid. A hundred years ago there was no proven crater on the Earth formed by an impact.