How Cool Would It Be... Meteorite Impact

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  1. IndigoWyrd

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    This is the Barringer Crater in Winslow, Arizona, USA. This was the site of a meteor impact some 50,000 years ago, by a piece of Iron Ore some 100 feet in diameter, which left a crater 4000 feet in diameter, 700 feet deep.

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    This is an Empyrion Iron Ore meteorite.

    Can anyone spot the difference? If not... where's the crater?

    How cool would it be to have these create craters, even if they're not particularly spectacular, thousands of feet in diameter and hundreds of feet deep, but to at least do some terrain deformation at their impact sites?

    We can even scratch the massive dust-clouds and long-term environmental impacts these have - since it was meteorite activity that brought about the ice age and the extinction of the dinosaurs, just to have some terrain deformation around the impact site.

    Well, as least *I* think it would be cool - what's everybody else's thoughts?
     
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