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To: SunkenCiv

IIRC, one theory was that the reason it left no crater is because it impacted a glacial ice sheet.

One the glacier melted, any crater would have melted with it.


2 posted on 03/10/2013 3:14:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: BenLurkin

Doubt it. A 4k meteor would hardly be even slowed by a 2 to 3 mile thick ice sheet.

It would release energy of 3.47 x 10 to the 6th megatons of TNT. The largest H-bomb ever built was 57 megatons.

Ice isn’t going to do much to affect that.

Here’s a neat impact calculator.

http://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEffects/


6 posted on 03/10/2013 3:39:10 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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