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Susie Beever

Plane passenger's shock after spotting mile-wide meteor crater in desert

On first glance, it looks like this giant crater has been left after a colossal hand punched down and gouged out tonnes of earth.

The gigantic holepunch which is a 50,000-year-old meteor crater was snapped by a breathless plane passenger on a flight over Arizona recently, who then posted the clip online.

550ft deep and almost a mile wide, the Barringer crater is located 18 miles from Winslow and 37 miles from Flagstaff, near to the Grand Canyon.

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