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Comet fragment capture

Hello Nick -

As Steele points out, for most smaller comet fragments ( those capable of leveling say a couple tens of thousands of sqaure acres), they explode in the atmosphere in an airblast of several megatons - they do not directly strike the ground.

This is why there are so few craters here on Earth, but so many on other bodies with no atmosphere -

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