Mon Oct 21 2002 19:47:
Appropos of the memory of our 1998 road trip:
Captain of an airliner:
"Coming up on the right, you can see the Meteor Crater,
which is a major tourist attraction in northern Arizona. It
was formed several hundred years ago, when a lump of
nickel and iron, roughly 150 feet in diameter and weighing
300,000 tons, struck the earth at about 40,000 miles an hour,
scattering white-hot debris for miles in every direction. The
hole measures nearly a mile across and is 570 feet deep."
From the cabin, a passenger was heard to
exclaim, "Wow! It just missed the highway!"