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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I don't think there's anything that could make a crater like that on Earth. Like, an impact big enough to leave a crater that big would render the entire crust splashy enough to fill it back in.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Yeah... from what I remember of dicking around in universe sandbox and space engine a while back... yeah, an impact this massive would ... well, now it makes more sense to model earth as a multilayered, viscous liquid, basically.

    You could end up with a ring system or possibly some minor moons, made out of ejecta.

    After basically the entire Earth has turned into 'the floor is lava' for... decades? centuries?

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