Word: meteored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three University astronomers announced to a Nashville, Tenn., astronomical meeting that they have discovered a new variety of meteor shower...
...Delta Aquarids, the trio of scientists stated, move in a highly elliptical orbit around the sun. Such an orbit differs greatly from that of any other meteor swarms. According to the astronomers, the particles did not originate from the debris of a comet in the usual manner of meteor formation...
Although this new type of meteor formation differs from the standard from of origin and orbit, the astronomers could find no other variations after examining the formation by both telescope and radar...
...Board of Geographic Names calls it "Meteor Crater" Airliners fly over it to show it to passengers, and the tourists it draws nourish a woebegone part of arid Arizona...
...science cannot let well enough alone. In the Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Geologist Dorsey Hager attempts to prove that Meteor Crater is nothing but an ancient sinkhole that just happened to get peppered, late in its life, by a swarm of meteorites. According to Hager, Meteor Crater started as a steep-sided dome thrust upward several million years ago by geological forces. Its rock was splintered by distortion, and water penetrated to "evaporite" (salt) beds far below it. After millions of years, the water removed a lot of this soluble stuff, leaving enormous caverns. At last...