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【万物简史】PART IV CH 13砰！（4）

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位于亚利桑那州的陨石坑是著名的旅游胜地。1903年，一位富有的采矿工程师曾幻想着在这里开采陨石带来的铁和镍，不过这些矿物早已随当年的撞击而蒸发。G. K. Gilbert在旅馆里用朝燕麦粥里扔鹅卵石的方法，断定月球上的坑乃陨石撞击所致，这在当时算是个激进的说法。

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The story begins in the early 1950s when a bright young geologist named Eugene Shoemaker paid a visit to Meteor Crater in Arizona. Today Meteor Crater is the most famous impact site on Earth and [-1-]. In those days, however, it didn't receive many visitors and was still often referred to as Barringer Crater, after a wealthy mining engineer named Daniel M. Barringer who had staked a claim on it in 1903. [---2---] Unaware that the meteor and everything in it would have been vaporized on impact, he wasted a fortune, and the next 26 years, cutting tunnels that [-3-] nothing.

[-4-] , crater research in the early 1900s was a trifle unsophisticated, to say the least. The leading early investigator, G. K. Gilbert of Columbia University, modeled the effects of impacts by flinging marbles into pans of oatmeal. ([---5---]) Somehow from this Gilbert concluded that the Moon's craters were indeed formed by impacts—[-6-]—but that the Earth’s were not. Most scientists refused to go even that far. To them, the Moon’s craters were evidence of ancient volcanoes and nothing more. [---7---]