SKIRMISHER

In 1979, artist James Turrell purchased this 400,00-year-old, 3-km-wide Roden Crater in Flagstaff, Arizona. For the past 30 years, James has been working to transform it into a “massive naked-eye observatory, designed specifically for the viewing of celestial phenomena. He says he’s planning to open the crater for public viewing in 2011. But he had also promised a 2005 opening, so maybe somebody’s leg is just being pulled. Nevertheless.

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