We get a major impact every 6,000 years, on average.
Daniel Moreau Barringer, the company's founder, was the first to identify the Crater, located near Flagstaff, Arizona, as a meteorite impact site. He founded the company more than 100 years ago, and his descendants own and operate the company as a privately held business, with each of the eight branches of his family -- most now in the fourth generation -- represented on the board of directors.
