[meteorite-list] "Supergiant" Asteroid Impact

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 17:15:29 -0500
Message-ID: <bo8h05p9e5hoanrls53kci4cv0s1osr7ks_at_4ax.com>

On Mon, 11 May 2009 13:01:28 -0700, you wrote:

>This raises the question that seems to be getting bigger and bigger.
>What would such an impact do to Earth?

An impact big enough to make a 2,000 mile crater? Think the oceans boiled away
to their floors, everything bigger than a hydrothermal vent bacterium killed
instantly, and maybe them, too.
Received on Mon 11 May 2009 06:15:29 PM PDT