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azure-trash asked:

What happened the to asteroid itself after the huge Impact? Was it just eroded away? With how big it was, there’s gotta be at least pieces of it left, right? This is thing that always get me with stuff like this. People almost never talk about what happened to the asteroid, though I don’t really have enough interest to seek the info myself so that could just be me not looking

cuddlef1sh:

bunjywunjy:

most of the Chicxulub asteroid was vaporized on impact and settled into a layer of fine particles that’s found in rock layers worldwide, but it also actually did punch all the way through the crust and into the mantle, completely destabilizing Earth’s volcanic cycle, so slight traces of it may still exist inside the Earth as well!

but yeah this is what it looks like now:

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that’s the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. it’s both everywhere and nowhere.

I love the call-and-response between asking the intuitive question “it was so big so there must be pieces left, right?” and getting the terrifying answer “actually it was so big that there aren’t any pieces left”

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[Posted July 18th, 2022 at 12:49 PM]
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    Sir, That's the fucker right there, Arrest him immediately for all the innocent lives he took
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