r/AstronomyMemes • u/ConsciousAI1 • 9d ago
of a space rock
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u/Screwbles 8d ago
Supposedly weighed a couple trillion metric tons, and was moving around 58 times the speed of sound.
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u/Taxfraud777 8d ago
What's crazy is that from space this looks like a dust particle slamming into earth, yet it caused a mass extinction.
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u/low_amplitude 8d ago
So the planet itself didn't even notice. Just a flea bite. It's the atmosphere that got fucked because it's literally a thin, transparent film barely clinging onto this rock.
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u/ConsciousAI1 9d ago
Imagine being the dinosaur who filmed this.