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Post by Jaga on Jul 18, 2008 19:29:10 GMT -7
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Bob S
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Post by Bob S on Sept 2, 2008 10:30:57 GMT -7
;D Jaga. Very interesting and the Arizona impactor would have led to a lot of destruction today. The biggest impactor that hit Earth may not have left a crater here on Earth but there is a reminder floating above us today. About 40 or 50 Bilion years ago a Mars sized impactor may have hit Earth. The impactor weighed about 1,000 billion squared tons and had a speed of about 22,400 mph(36,000 Km/h). Much of Earth's crust and mantle were vaporized. Earth 's spin is reversed and the debris thrown off by the impact coalesces into an object that still survives today; the Moon. This impact created a real climate change and may be responsible for the Earth we see today.
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