not what they were before impact. What did I do to you to use such wording as this:
"It’s an example of lying with the truth."
You?
You did nothing even remotely resembling that!
Please forgive me if I even sounded like that was my thought!
My point was that the author of the piece so grossly decoupled the magnitude of the impact from the sized of the bolide that arrived in the earth's atmosphere that a casual reader would think that either a marble could level a city, or Tunguska caused no discernible damage.
That is not even approaching reality at either end.
By declaring a few scorched fragments to be the entirety of the impactors, meaningful information is so grossly distorted that even a politician should blush at trying to put that one over on the public.
A better metric would be estimated mass to have entered the atmosphere.
It's as if saying striking nothing sunk the Titanic, simply because no fragment of the iceberg was recovered!