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To: FormerRep

Re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere will easily surpass 212 degrees.


56 posted on 06/08/2009 7:52:02 PM PDT by BrandtMichaels
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To: BrandtMichaels

The core of an iron asteroid would not. Only the outer basaltic mass would ablate. (See the Arizona crater). The impact would not generate heat but a kinematic transfer of energy to an inert object ejecting all of the mass of the impactor and the impact surface. Spores would survive.


74 posted on 06/09/2009 3:18:40 PM PDT by FormerRep
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