It Came From the Depths of Space

What if it strikes a populated area?

It Came From the Depths of Space

 

By Elton Camp

 

It was created at the time of the Solar System’s birth

And traveled millions of miles before it reached Earth

When it reached the atmosphere, it had no way to slow

So crashing into our planet was the only way it could go

 

About 300,000 pounds was the visitor’s impressive mass

Through the air at 26,000 miles per hour it did pass

It wasn’t composed of material that was flimsy or fickle

But was made mostly out of the elements iron and nickel

 

This took place fifty thousand years into the Earth’s past

And was shown by a fireball and a most tremendous blast

If onto one of the oceans the visitor had happened to fall,

There would have been scant evidence it had made a call

 

But what is now Arizona is the place it proceeded to strike

Cooler and wetter, it wasn’t what the present desert is like

Forest trees and vegetation it leveled for many miles around

Mammoths, mastodons and sloths it knocked to the ground

 

It was by the force of the impact, the meteorite was melted

With tiny fragments of iron the surroundings were pelted

Millions of tons of limestone and sandstone it blasted away

And there we see an enormous crater even to this very day

 

The huge depression is ¾ of a mile wide and 750 feet deep

With walls of remaining stone so impressive and so steep

Why should something like that still interest us here today?

Because it could happen another time in just that same way