13 Apr
2012
13 Apr
'12
11:04 a.m.
Superballs hitting one another? At 08:05 AM 4/13/2012, Torgerson, Mark D wrote:
What about multiple roughly simultaneous impacts?
If the two debris clouds interact violently enough, then there may be lots of collisions at altitude. Big thing smacks smaller thing(s), momentum transfer, and -bonk- out into space goes something that would never make it on its own.
None of the colliding bodies would even have to achieve groundside escape velocity.