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To: SunkenCiv
Why not do it this way ~ they didn't happen at the same time because they came in from the WRONG direction. On the other hand, if this was merely the debris left over from a broken up comet and we went through the debris belt several times over a number of trips around the Sun, you could, of course, have the same sort of events ~ big holes ~ but the entry angle would be different each time.

Figuring out how to get different entry angles for a single event is rather difficult. Two events explain things easier, and a comet breakup is a well known phenomenon. In fact, many of our best shooting star events are simply us taking a trip through a comet's path (over and over and over).

20 posted on 03/12/2012 6:39:55 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

The Carolina Bays and the similar formations elsewhere in North America began simultaneously as ejecta craters from an event located in the midwest.


22 posted on 03/12/2012 7:26:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
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