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I always wondered why there aren’t a whole bunch of minerals from the asteroid inside the crater? Shouldn’t it be loaded with gold and such?
by bilsbie 8mo ago
I always wondered why there aren’t a whole bunch of minerals from the asteroid inside the crater? Shouldn’t it be loaded with gold and such?
- tw-20260303-001 8mo agoMaybe there are. Buried deep under sediments.
- dylan604 8mo ago"The object that excavated the crater was a nickel-iron meteorite about 160 ft (50 m) across."[0] Not a lot of gold and such. It's not like the impact was going to fuse atoms of nickel-iron into gold. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater
- cratermoon 8mo ago1. The impact object was a nickel-iron meteorite. There's not much of anything else in those kinds of objects. 2. Most of the impact object vaporized in the estimated 10MT release of energy.