[AZLiberty]

A “mile-wide asteroid” would have done a lot more damage than this article accounts for.

[Army Air Corps]

Same here. I had read in numerous scientific journals that even a one-mile wide asteroid would cause cataclysmic damage.

[Onelifetogive]

Now researchers say their translation of symbols on a star map from an ancient civilisation includes notes on a mile-wide asteroid...

The ancient Sumerians were able to determine the size of an asteroid??? I don't think so.

[coloradan]

Maybe it was a mile wide and a foot long and a foot tall.

[bruinbirdman]

"A “mile-wide asteroid” would have done a lot more damage "

"A Sumerian Observation of the Köfels Impact Event, suggests that the asteroid left no crater because it clipped a mountain and turned into a fireball."

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[RayChuang88]

A mile-wide asteroid impact would effectively snuff out all life within a few thousand miles' radius of the impact, thanks to the "rain" of superheated ash from the impact site. If it impacted in Europe it would have pretty much wiped out all animal and human life there.

[MHGinTN]

Depends upon the composition of the object.

[ikka]

How much would have burned up before reaching ground level?

[gleeaikin]

“A ‘mile-wide asteroid’ would have don a lot more damage.”

If the boloid were of the fluffy snowball type described in “The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes,” by Firestone et al. it could still have killed a lot of people, but left a less severe trace. Incidentally, there was a possible boloid strike in Greenland around 1999 (?), does anyone know if they ever found any traces of this impactor?

[Red Badger]

A “mile-wide asteroid” would have done a lot more damage than this article accounts for.

The asteroid came in at a very low angle, approximately 6°. It hit a mountain top and exploded into a bazillion pieces. It was an asteroid with a orbit that was nearly the same as the Earth's............

[southland]

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