Some well documented pictures of the 100 plus asteroid impact craters on earth show the empty craters. But what happened to the huge objects that created these?
2007-08-23 01:41:15 · 6 answers · asked by superprohero 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Tourists took them home for souvenirs.
2007-08-23 01:49:18 · answer #1 · answered by Snaglefritz 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
smaller ones are taken like the others have said ... or at least what left of them... The really big ones vaporise upon impact, or at least the better part of them do leaving only very very small bits no bigger than a bee bees... Note there are two major types of meteor that hit Earth.. loose rocky that mostly burn up on entering Earth's atmosphere and not leaving much after impact, and heavy iron meteors that do tend to leave something behind. In less they are very big one like the one that hit in Arizona and very little is left but very small bits...
2007-08-23 02:04:04 · answer #2 · answered by the_gunfighter_45acp 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The impact creates so much energy that most all are melted and splattered all around. Some of the material is vaporized. On the moon we found small glass beads.
2007-08-23 02:16:29 · answer #3 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ejected into the atmosphere/vaporized.Very good evidence of this is the iridium layer all around the globe.Iridium is rare on Earth,common in asteroids.Everywhere around the world is this layer,below it,Dino fossils,above it,no more Dino's
2007-08-23 01:53:12 · answer #4 · answered by nobodinoze 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they became part of the earth the crater is just the entry point
2007-08-23 01:50:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Due to the intense heat during contact,the matter annihilates
2007-08-23 02:16:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋