This scientific demonstration shows an asteroid the size of Nevada, hitting the earth at 22,000mph.
The energy from the main impact would create the temperatures so hot the earths oceans would vaporize, and the sky would actually "be on fire".
Debris, the size of small islands, thrown into the air would come back down and create miniature versions of the main impact across the globe.
And to think that 22,000mph/Nevada sized is considered slow/small in terms of overall galactic occurrences.

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Some posters really aren't appreciating the scale of the impact.
As far as the scope, that wave you see coming from the ocean where the asteroid hits? The TOP of that wave is the water from the BOTTOM of the Pacific Ocean. That wave is miles and miles high, and look where the debris of the earth is at, even higher.

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