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Old 13-July-2008, 11:15 PM
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By contrast, had the same mass hit the planet, intact, we'd probably have had another event similar to the K/T extinction event.
Not likely. The K/T event was caused by an asteroid on the order of 6 miles across. Tunguska was a few tens of meters across.
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