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English: From source ; an animation showing the Chicxulub Crater impact. Per request from Center (Maria Schuchardt), use must be accompanied with credit: University of Arizona, Space Imagery Center.
Italiano: L'animazione mostra la formazione di un cratere meteoritico complesso come quello di Chicxulub. Al momento dell'impatto l'asteroide si vaporizza scatenando potentissime onde d'urto che liquefanno la superficie e lacerano le rocce sottostanti, mentre migliaia di km3 di materiali fusi vengono scaraventati a grandissima velocità fuori dal cratere transiente, che è instabile; analogamente a ciò che accade lanciando un sasso in uno stagno, si verifica un effetto rimbalzo repentino che controbilancia la pressione delle onde d'urto e si solleva un titanico pennacchio centrale di materiale fuso che in pochi minuti collassa assieme al cratere transiente, generando il cratere finale.
Date 17 October 2007 (original upload date)
Source Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.
Author The original uploader was David Fuchs at English Wikipedia .
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  • 2007-10-17 23:03 David Fuchs 1000×453×6 (892041 bytes) From [http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/SIC/impact_cratering/Chicxulub/Discovering_crater.html source]; an animation showing the [[Chicxulub Crater]] impact. Per request from Center (Maria Schuchardt), use must be accompanied with credit: University of Arizona,

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Animation showing the Chicxulub Crater impact

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