What Happens When a Meteorite Strikes Earth? -- Extreme Science #1
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Imagine a 100,000 ton hunk of space rock, a meteorite weighing almost as much as two Titanics, slamming into our planet. Imagine it is only 98 feet in diameter, the length of a blue whale. Now imagine it hits the surface of our planet travelling at 28,600 miles per hour. The impact it would leave behind would look exactly like this. But this is nothing compared to what came before...or what could still be coming...this is Extreme Science. The meteorite that impacted where we are now did so 50,000 years ago with the force of 2.5 million tons of TNT - making a crater that is a quarter of a mile wide and 560ft deep. Millions of tons of Earth were ejected outwards, most melted by the heat of the impact. But that wasn’t all the damage, oh no not at all. L...
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Imagine a 100,000 ton hunk of space rock, a meteorite weighing almost as much as two Titanics, slamming into our planet. Imagine it is only 98 feet in diameter, the length of a blue whale. Now imagine it hits the surface of our planet travelling at 28,600 miles per hour. The impact it would leave behind would look exactly like this. But this is nothing compared to what came before...or what could still be coming...this is Extreme Science. The meteorite that impacted where we are now did so 50,000 years ago with the force of 2.5 million tons of TNT - making a crater that is a quarter of a mile wide and 560ft deep. Millions of tons of Earth were ejected outwards, most melted by the heat of the impact. But that wasn’t all the damage, oh no not at all. L...
