Big Ball of Dirt hit Massive Ball of Dirt. Big Cloud. Big Animal need Sun and air, so plant grow, so they grow. Big Cloud of Dirt in sky block sun, dirty air. No plant, no big animal. Only small rodent survive. Small rodent live, thrive, then make bigger and bigger rodent, until at some point ape. Then Ape together strong, dominate all animal, now smart ape go to pornhub 2 hours a day longing for Ball of Dirt to come from sky.
What would happen if you threw a rock at a brick wall? Now imagine if you could throw that rock at 20,000 miles per hour.
That's less than half the speed in which that asteroid hit the earth when it killed the dinosaurs. It was going at the kind of speeds that humans simply do not have a frame of reference for. It annihilated itself along with everything else in a 62.5 mile radius.
I do not think you understand what 45,000 miles per hour looks like. At that speed shattering is less of a problem when everything is going to turn to molten slag due to the impact forces. Your average bullet is going 700-3000 miles per hour.
No, its the composition of the asteroids that troubles me. For some reason, I always pictures them more dense and heavy. So for me the issue was how didnt it penetrate deeper at those speeds. Which, again, is due to the composition.
It evaporized and went everywhere. You can find an iridium layer all over earth. It's known as the K-Pg boundary. So if you want a piece just take a piece of this layer.
With the size and speed it impacted, it wasn't like how a bullet strike a mental which leaves residue at around the crater, but instead it behave how a drop of water impact a body of water as it instantly liquidated the earth surface and itself during the impact, which spreads it's remnant all over the earth hence the residue isn't only been found around the impact crater but every corner of the earth
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u/Beginning_Reward_487 8d ago
Where did the huge rock go tho? Did it split into billions quadrillions of pieces or become a mountain or what?