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Old 14-06-2009, 09:10 AM
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Originally Posted by space oddity View Post
Once again, as anyone should know, it takes an impactor impacting at a cosmic velocity in excess of 5km/sec to cause a crater 8 times the diameter of the impactor - caused by the vapour pressure of the instantaneous conversion of kinetic energy into thermal energy.
Of course they should... but no mention of asymptotic mathematics?


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