Figure E14 IMPACT
Quitting Venus, torrid yet serene,
We shift once more into the deeper past
To gaze upon a cataclysmic scene:
Four giant planets, crowded, racing fast
About the Sun, till Jupiter has cast
His three companions distant from their flock
Of planetesimals, which fall to blast
The inner planets. Battered by the shock,
See Luna’s blemished face, a testament to ROCK.