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Burning up in the atmosphere is still a concern. In the Cretaceous–Paleogene, aka the day the dinosaurs died, most of the damage was done by matter ejected on s
by jasonwatkinspdx 3y ago
Burning up in the atmosphere is still a concern. In the Cretaceous–Paleogene, aka the day the dinosaurs died, most of the damage was done by matter ejected on suborbital trajectories by the impact falling back into and superheating the atmosphere.
- adolph 3y agoI wonder if Stevenson was thinking about that event when writing Seveneves: In the near future, an unknown agent causes the Moon to shatter. As the pieces begin to collide with one another, astronomer and science popularizer "Doc" Dubois Harris calculates that Moon fragments will begin entering Earth's atmosphere, forming a white sky and blanketing the Earth within two years with what he calls a "Hard Rain" of bolides, causing the atmosphere to heat to incandescence and the oceans to boil away, rendering Earth uninhabitable for thousands of years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveneves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveneves