ng ually tourned out at one end of Main Street and cornado came to ly scampered . Four of t move quite fast enougcalled Crater Days,  un doesn’t really o do er. Nobody’s figured out a o capitalize on an impact site t isn’t visible.

    “Very occasionally  people coming in and asking er and ell t to see,” says Anna Scoed.”  people,including most Ios it barelyrates a footnote. But for one brief period in t geologicallyexciting place on Earth.

    tory begins in t young geologist named EugeneS to Meteor Crater in Arizona. today Meteor Crater is t famousimpact site on Eartourist attraction. In t didn’t receivemany visitors and ill often referred to as Barringer Crater, after a aked a claim on it in 1903. Barringer believedt ter en-million-ton meteor, ed  ation t une digging it out.

    Una teor and everyt une, and t ty-six years, cutting tunnels t yielded nothing.

    By tandards of today, crater researcrifle unsopicated, tosay t. tigator, G. K. Gilbert of Columbia University, modeledts of impacts by flinging marbles into pans of oatmeal. (For reasons I cannot supply,Gilbert conducted ts not in a laboratory at Columbia but in a el room.)Some concluded t ters s—in itself quite a radical notion for time—but t t. Mostscientists refused to go even t far. to ters volcanoes and noters t remained evident on Eart tributed to otreated as fluky rarities.

    By time S Meteor Crater eam explosion. S undergroundsteam explosions—: t exist—but  blast zones. Oneof  jobs out of co