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Re: It's not so much the proximity, but the size.

Personally, I use the simple "factor of 20 rule" :-

An impactor will produce a crater approximately 20 times its own diameter. Of course this assumes "average" density and "average" velocity, but it helps imagine what would happen.

And that's onl;y the hole in the middle. For a few crater diameters outside things get pretty rough, too!

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