Assessments of the energy, mass and size of the Chicxulub Impactor — mentioned by Archelaos

Fri, 01 Sep 2023 22:37:59 GMT

A single event like the Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact does not tell us much about frequencies on its own. Besides, the original width of Shoemaker-Levy 9 was estimated to have been between 1.5 to 2 km.[1] The Chicxulub meteorite was estimated to have been between 10 and 80 km wide.[2] And it happened around 65 million years ago. So frequencies then and frequencies now might be quite different. That meteorite impacts happen from time to time on earth was nothing controversial. The question was, whether there had been a (very rare) hugh impact, large enough at the time of the Cretaceous–Paleogene…

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Assessments of the energy, mass and size of the Chicxulub Impactor — mentioned by Archelaos