The Impact With An Asteroid
- When a high-impact asteroid or smaller rocks known as meteors rush towards Earth, the atmosphere behaves like it is water being hit by pebbles.
- The rocks burn away in the friction when colliding with the atmosphere, with the giant asteroids (those the size of a mountain) having the ability to wipe out entire life from the planet.
- The fall is at a speed of more than 10 miles per second, and ensures that even air cannot escape the impact area, and gets heated thousands of degrees in an instant.
- The compressed, super-hot air vaporizes the surrounding area. The impact does not give time to rocks to shatter or crumble, and they start to flow, instantly turning liquid.
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