Posted: Sep 26, 2011 3:55 am
harleyborgais wrote:Theropod:
Tulane University WEB SITE says:
... An impact like the one that struck the Yucatan Peninsula, in Mexico about 65 million years ago, thought responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs and numerous other species, created the Chicxulub Crater, 180 km in diameter and released energy equivalent to about 100 million megatons of TNT.
There is the energy of the impact...
now we can use the size (about 6.4-9.3 miles diameter) and try to figure out how much material it launched up.
If you don't remember I already did. It's a simple calculation a few pages back, practically nothing compared to what you and Hovind describe.