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Beautiful photo.
it’s amazing how round the craters are. It seems like a few things would come in at angles and plow furrows.
yvilletom
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Maybe most collisions were with asteroids in orbits similar to Earth and the gravity wells of Earth and Moon pull the collision trajectory towards vertical. Looks to me collision debris is often heavier in one direction than in the opposite, which suggests a horizontal component of impact velocity. Moreover, impacts splash, and secondary impacts may tend to have more vertical motion than the initial impact. A simulation might help, because logic often fails trying to understand chaotic systems like this.
@yvilletom Generally yes, but specifically, no. Hurricanes are also chaotic. Notice the spaghetti predictions move in the same direction for a day or two, but the further in time they predict (simulate) the less the different predictions agree. The pieces of an impact and lab impact would sort of be alike, but each impact is different from others, as babies are alike, but different.
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