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Originally Posted by xelasnave
It may be the different in atmospheres between the Moon and Earth that sees more evidence of impact crators on the Moon whereas..presumably our atmosphere is the first point of contact and therefore the explosion starts there and does not wait for actual impact with the hard surface iof the planet.
An inward bound object meeting our atmosphere may as well be hitting a brick wall I expect... still never been there when something like that has happened and can only mind model an outcome  .
alex  |
It's amazing it doesn't happen more often, but then a hundred years is not even even a blink on the geological scale, let alone the cosmological one!
Thread wending it's way back on track
