# looking for animation of asteroid event

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-animation-of-asteroid-event/214926>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 24, 2003, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-animation-of-asteroid-event/214926 "2003-11-24T03:03:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Weeks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbce88/32.png) [@Weeks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weeks)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-animation-of-asteroid-event/214926/1 "2003-11-24T03:03:57Z")

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…one of the big ones, y’know? I’d kinda like to see how much of the sphere was immidiately involved.

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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-animation-of-asteroid-event/214926/2 "2003-11-24T03:26:21Z")

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If you mean how much of the Earth’s sphere, the answer is not much. Although these events are highly energetic, they don’t directly affect a large area. The impact crater from the Chicxulub event believed to have been responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs has a diameter of about 210 miles, and a depth of about 50 miles–very small in relation to the size of the Earth.

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**Author:** ![Weeks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbce88/32.png) [@Weeks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weeks)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-animation-of-asteroid-event/214926/3 "2003-11-24T04:01:31Z")

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Wouldn’t a crater of 210 miles equate to an ejecta field of thousands of miles? Sounds like a big chunk of the globe to me. i’ll bet it looked cool from the moon!

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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-animation-of-asteroid-event/214926/4 "2003-11-24T04:04:36Z")

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Oh, sure. And a fireball that nearly engulfed a hemisphere. But you said “immediately involved”, which I took to mean as a direct result of the impact itself. Indirectly the entire globe was affected.

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**Author:** ![Weeks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbce88/32.png) [@Weeks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weeks)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-animation-of-asteroid-event/214926/5 "2003-11-24T04:16:33Z")

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well I figured we could include the area buried whithin the first ten minutes as immidiate

No animation, but [this](http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/SIC/impact_cratering/Chicxulub/Discovering_crater.html) is pretty neat.