It is likely that the dust from our event, by virtue of its size, had a residence time in the stratosphere of a few weeks. After that the particles would have drifted down to the troposphere and may have been 'washed out' by rain.

There is some uncertainty in the total influx of meteoric matter, but it is probably on the order of 40 +/- 20 thousand tons per year. Our event represented a mass influx of about one thousand tons.

Humility is the only soil in which the graces root; the lack of humility is the sufficient explanation of every defect and failure. Humility is not so much a grace or virtue along with others; it is the root of all, because it alone takes the right attitude before God, and allows Him as God to do all.

I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.

All good things were at one time bad things; every original sin has developed into an original virtue.

The virtue of authenticity is that it doesn't change in the course of time.