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To: Red Badger

The asteroid- 2020 VT4 is estimated to be 5-10 meters (16-32 feet) across, about the size of a small house.

The object that excavated the crater was a nickel-iron meteorite about 160 feet (50 meters) across. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater

28 posted on 11/19/2020 4:29:46 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

To: Elsie

The impact energy depends on mass (composition and size) and relative speed (momentum).

33 posted on 11/28/2020 9:46:58 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))

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