Crater Face

If we could see all the holes gouged in the Earth by asteroids, we’d run screaming for cover.

Meteor Crater in Arizona: a recent, but not terribly large, impact scar. (National Map Seamless Server)

By Tony Reichhardt

Air & Space Magazine |
May 2004

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The tiny town of Vista, Missouri, population "about 80," is excited about nearby Weaubleau-Osceola too, and is thinking of making it a tourist attraction. Evans enjoys talking to schoolkids about the site; he likes opening their eyes to the reality of asteroid impacts by pointing to the giant hole in their own backyard.

The signs are all around if we take the trouble to look.

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