It Came From the Depths of Space
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
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