"loathe ice chunks".... Are you drunk/tired/stoned, or is that the actual scientific term?
Incomprehensible speed or not, the laws of physics still apply, and from what I understand, there's no way a high-speed, high-energy impact caused that hole.
My spell check hates me. I think your physics are off.
Look at it this way. If you throw a small rock through a window just hard enough to go through the entire window shatters.
Now send a bullet that is the same diameter as the rock through the window at around 2800 FPS and it leaves a small hole with some fracturing around it.
The faster the object goes the cleaner the hole will be. The displaced water would easily throw the ice chunks in a circular pattern around the hole.
Until you have something moving so damn fast, the shockwave it creates destroys all around it. If it shattered windows, in MID AIR, it would have shattered that area around the "entry" point as well, creating such a disturbance in the water, that the waves under the ice would have cracked the ice for hundreds of yards around it.
Until you have something moving so damn fast, the shockwave it creates destroys all around it. If it shattered windows, in MID AIR, it would have shattered that area around the "entry" point as well, creating such a disturbance in the water, that the waves under the ice would have cracked the ice for hundreds of yards around it.
It was the meteorite shattering that caused the shock wave, it pretty much explodes. Above ground detonations do more damage, that's way A bombs are detonated a certain distance above ground.
The whole in the ice was not caused by the Giant meteorite that came crashing in to the earth but by a small fragment probably the size of a base ball that was left over after it exploded.
Someone should go down there with a metal detector for retrieval. Wonder how deep it is?
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The asteroid flyby and Russian meteor explosion had significantly different trajectories, showing that they were completely unrelated events, NASA officials said.
We need a physicist on the forum.
I'm gonna go check in to a holiday in express, I'll let y'all know exactly what happened tomorrow morning.