02-18-2013, 08:37 PM
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Originally Posted by **********
There is no crater because the asteroid blew up 25 miles above ground, and did so while it was flying more or less horizontally at thousands of miles an hour.
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Lies!
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But this is just the start of the process of gathering the debris left by the large meteorite, which exploded on entering the earth's atmosphere and hit the ground in a series of fireballs on Friday.
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source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/20...ragments-comet |
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