I thought with all of the discussion about major leading scientist now releasing there conclusion about the Chicxulub crater on the Mexican coast being the cause of the dinosaurs mass extinction some 65 million years ago. I would post this 55min video about Meteor impacts form National Geographic. It also covers the Shoemaker-Levey 9 that collided with Jupiter in July 1994, and discusses what happens when a mountain size asteroid collides with the Earth. Eugene Shoemaker passed away July 18, 1997 from a car accident in Australia. He was there looking for previously unnoticed or undiscovered meteor craters. On July 31, 1999, some of his ashes were carried to the Moon by the Lunar Prospector space probe. This makes him the only person to have been buried on the Moon. This will make more since when you watch the video.
The brass foil wrapping of Shoemaker’s memorial capsule is inscribed with images of Comet Hale-Bopp, the Barringer Crater, and a quotation from Romeo and Juliet reading
“And, when he shall die
Take him and cut him out in little stars
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun
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