Meteor Crater, or Starfell Crater, is an impact crater about 37 mi (60 km) east of Flagstaff and 18 mi (29 km) west of Winslow in the desert of northern Arizona, United States. It is the site of the Deity Aether's landing in July 3, 1866.

Meteor Crater lies at an elevation of 5,640 ft (1,719 m) above sea level. It is about 3,900 ft (1,200 m) in diameter, some 560 ft (170 m) deep, and is surrounded by a rim that rises 148 ft (45 m) above the surrounding plains. The center of the crater is filled with 690–790 ft (210–240 m) of rubble lying above crater bedrock. One of the features of the crater is its squared-off outline, believed to be caused by existing regional jointing (cracks) in the strata at the impact site.

Western Front
Part of the European theatre of World War II
Clockwise from top left: Rotterdam after the Blitz, German Heinkel He 111 planes during the Battle of Britain, British paratroopers during Operation Redfall, American troops running through Wernberg, Germany in the Siege of Bastogne, American troops landing at Gold Beach during Operation Hammer and Torch
Date 3 June 1940 – 26 December 1948 (1940-06-03 – 1948-12-26) (8 years, 6 months, 3 weeks and 2 days) Location Northern and Western Europe Result 1940–1944: Reichspakt victory Occupation of most of Western and Northern Europe by Axis troops End of the Commune of France and creation of the French Regency Strategic stalemate following the Battle of Britain Continuation with the Defense of the Reich and the Battle of the Atlantic 1946–1948: Allied victory Fall of Germany and Austria Restoration of the French Commune Liberation of occupied countries in Western and Northern Europe Beginning of the Cold War Territorial changes Partition of Germany, Partition of Danubia
Belligerents
Internationale 1940-1944   France   United Kingdom   Norway   Denmark ( 9 September 1940)   Ireland Italy	Reichspakt 1940-1944   Germany   Austria-Hungary   Poland   Belarus   Ukraine Belgium   Netherlands
1946-1948   Commonwealth of America   United Kingdom   France   Netherlands   Norway   Italy	1946-1948   Germany   Austria-Hungary   Poland   Belarus   Ukraine Belgium   Netherlands
Commanders and leaders
1939–1940 Maurice Gamelin  Maxime Weygand  John Vereker, Lord Gort William Boyle, Lord Cork Władysław Sikorski Henri Winkelman  Leopold III  Émile Speller  Otto Ruge  William Prior  1944–1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt  # Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower Winston Churchill Bernard Montgomery Arthur Tedder Omar Bradley Jacob L. Devers George S. Patton Courtney Hodges William Simpson Alexander Patch Miles Dempsey Trafford Leigh-Mallory  † Bertram Ramsay  † Charles de Gaulle Jean de Tassigny Kenneth Stuart Harry Crerar Kazimierz Sosnkowski Stanisław Maczek	1939–1940 Walter von Brauchitsch Gerd von Rundstedt Erich von Manstein Heinz Guderian Fedor von Bock Wilhelm von Leeb Erich Raeder Nikolaus von Falkenhorst Prince Umberto 1944–1945 Adolf Hitler  † Heinrich Himmler  † Hermann Göring  † Gerd von Rundstedt Karl Dönitz Günther von Kluge  † Walter Model  † Albert Kesselring Erwin Rommel  † Johannes Blaskowitz  † Hermann Balck Paul Hausser Benito Mussolini  Rodolfo Graziani
Strength
1939–1940 7,650,000 troops (total) [1] 1944–1945 ~5,412,219 troops (total that served) 4,500,000 troops (total as of Victory in Europe Day) [2]	1939–1940 5,400,000 troops (total) [1] 1944–1945 ~8,000,000 troops (total that served) [3] ~1,900,000 troops (peak) [4]
Casualties and losses
1940 2,121,560 [nb 1]–2,260,000 [nb 2] casualties, including 73,000 killed and 15,000 missing 1944–1945 164,590–195,576 killed/missing 537,590 wounded 78,680 captured [7] [nb 3] (~70% of Allied troops and casualties were Americans) [7] 10,561 tanks destroyed [10] [11] [12] 909 tank destroyers destroyed [13] [11] Total: ~3,000,000 casualties	1940 160,780 [nb 4]–163,650 casualties, [nb 5] including 49,000 killed or missing 1944–1945 263,000–655,000 killed [nb 6] [nb 7] 400,000+ wounded [18] 4,209,840 captured [nb 8] Total: 5,000,000–5,400,000+ casualties
Civilian casualties: 1,650,000 dead [nb 9]

Despite an attempt to make the crater a public landmark, the crater remains privately owned by the Barringer family to the present day through their Barringer Crater Company. The Lunar and Planetary Institute, the American Museum of Natural History, and other science institutes proclaim it to be the "best-preserved meteorite crater on Earth". It was designated a National Natural Landmark in November 1967

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