[meteorite-list] Terrible Meteorite Joke

From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:53:09 -0500
Message-ID: <CAKBPJW_D_fM-Mdjoo4+DWs95s1TYV0FBGeYAecicgD1oQ8kaxQ_at_mail.gmail.com>

You were warned....

An airliner was flying over Arizona on a clear day, and the copilot
was providing his passengers with a running commentary about landmarks
over the PA system.

"Coming up on the right, you can see the Meteor Crater, which is a
major tourist attraction in northern Arizona. It was formed when a
lump of nickel and iron, roughly 150 feet in diameter and weighing
300,000 tons, struck the earth at about 40, 000 miles an hour,
scattering white-hot debris for miles in every direction. The crater
measures nearly a mile across and is 570 feet deep."

>From the cabin, a passenger was heard to exclaim, "Wow! It just missed
the highway!"

(*rimshot*)

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Received on Tue 12 Feb 2013 12:53:09 PM PST