While Carolyn participated in the symposium, Mark and Volker continued their
touring. They visited the
Rieskrater-Museum in Nördlingen, site of a 15 million-year-old
meteor impact crater. As it turns out, the late Gene Shoemaker and his wife
and comet-hunting partner Carolyn Shoemaker had visited the museum a few
years ago. Gene had studied the site and proclaimed it an impact crater --
and was honored by having Eugene-Shoemaker-Platz named after him.
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