In 1903, a mining engineer staked a claim on Arizona's Meteor Crater, convinced a fortune in iron lay beneath the floor, and spent 26 years drilling for a meteorite that had mostly vaporized on impact — his family still owns the crater today, and science later pro - spacedaily.com
SpacedailySeptember 13, 2026
The hole in the ground east of Flagstaff is nearly a mile across and deep enough to swallow a 50-story building, and in 1903 the United States government’s official position was that it was a volcano…
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