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A geometric meteor descends toward a crater next to a telescope and a spiky desert plant.

How much do you really know about this impact? Play the Meteor Crater trivia now

Impact Events

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Fifty thousand years ago, a piece of iron slammed into the Arizona desert with the force of twenty million tons of TNT. You're standing on the edge of the world's best-preserved impact site. Can you handle the physics of this scar on Earth? Prove it or get left in the dust.