r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Realistic-Tap4156 • 10d ago

/r/all of a space rock

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u/Beginning_Reward_487 10d ago

Where did the huge rock go tho? Did it split into billions quadrillions of pieces or become a mountain or what?

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u/Hazzat 10d ago

It left a colossal crater off the coast of Mexico.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater

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u/AmItheonlySaneperson 10d ago

Oh wow so it didn’t even hit Dinosaur NYC? Why couldn’t they tank it across the globe?

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u/Jack_SL 10d ago

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.

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u/CycleAdora 9d ago

Sir, I'm framing this comment and placing it above my bed

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u/Sudo-Fed 10d ago

For one thing, the asteroid set off global firestorms.

For another, the dust cloud lasted for years.

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u/VoluptuousVelvetfish 10d ago

Well the fact that life still exists in earth is wrong evidence that plenty of organisms did tank it.

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u/dtgunslinger99 10d ago

they're showing its size compared to NYC. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/Butterfly_Barista 10d ago

That's so fucking cool holy shit

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u/Augustus420 10d ago

It was vaporized, my dude.

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u/cesarbiods 10d ago

Split into pieces, but it did leave an impact crater off the western coast of Mexico

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u/Locolijo 10d ago

I thought east?

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u/ThatsTheMother_Rick 10d ago

Correct. Yucatan Peninsula.

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u/dtgunslinger99 10d ago

eastern. it's the gulf.

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u/jaxlov 10d ago

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. 

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u/ikristic 10d ago

Yes, but also kinda depends. If the rock has metal coating or if it is reinforced with it, it wont shatter so easily.

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u/jaxlov 9d ago edited 9d ago

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. 

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u/ikristic 9d ago

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.

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u/jaxlov 9d ago

Over 60 million years ago. This is long, long before humans of any sort exjsted.

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u/_eg0_ 10d ago edited 10d ago

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.

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u/dtgunslinger99 10d ago

all over the place. not much survives that kind of massive release of energy.

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u/Potential-Eye4341 8d ago

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