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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Perfectly round craters on planet surfaces are assumed to be caused by asteroids striking the surface.
Some say that an exploding planet caused a hail of impacts causing craters.
Lets ask the questions that are most disturbing.
Why are all craters perfectly round or near perfectly round?
1. The First Conjecture: We can look at any planet or any moon and we will still see perfectly round or near perfectly round craters. You will never produce one picture of a strike on a planet or moon surface that looks like a long glancing gash as if hit from an oblique angle to the surface.</b><hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
<font color="yellow">This is an untrue statement. There are many such glancing blows and trenches left and have been photographed.</font id="yellow">
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><b>According to the Exploding Planet Theory, we might expect that the alledged fragments might hit Mars near the poles of Mars where the poles will present a surface nearly parallel with the trajectory of the Exploded Planet fragments hitting the surface. In these cases we might try to identify any long gash in the surface of Mars where these alledged fragments struck the surface....but there are no such gashes.....none......this leads us to seek a totally different cause of these craters which never show up as gashes but always show up as round craters. Simply put, have you ever seen a shooting star asteroid change its straight line path so that it can hit the pole areas at 90 degrees to the surface?</b><hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
<font color="yellow">This statement is false as stated above.</font id="yellow">
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><b>2. The Second Conjecture: We also assume that planet and moon craters could possibly have been caused by a periodic bombardment by a field of asteroids or a past cataclysmic event involving asteroids from some unknown place. Many attempts have been scientifically presented as to why asteroids were the past cause of these craters.
However, when we again ask, "Why are all planet and moon craters perfectly round or nearly perfectly round as if the surface was struck at a 90 degree angle?" We could also expect that a bombardment of asteroids, it matters not where from, would also show an oblique gash as it hit near each pole, assuming the meteor bombardment was from the ecliptic/equator plane of each solar body. In any event, be it from a polar angle or an equatorial angle, we might expect some of the hits to leave round craters and gashes upon the surface. Again, have you ever seen a shooting star asteroid change its straight line path so that it can hit the pole areas at 90 degrees to the surface?
Please be scientifically specific and try not to get emotional or personal. Thank you.
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<font color="yellow">As stated above there are many such traces of glancing blows but it is true that the majority are quasi circular. It infact makes perfect sense that they should be.
1 - Any object captured by gravity of a body that is coming anything but vertically inward will have a curvature downward and toward the center of gravity tracing out an ever increase tendancy to form a vertical path.
2 - The actual ability to penetrate the atmosphere and impact such a body is a function of its velocity and;
3 - a function of its angle;
4 - a function of the density of the atmosphere.
5 - If such conditions are not met the object bounces off the atmosphere and back into space like skipping a rock over a pond of water.
6 - The absence of such an atmosphere should increase the number of non-circular impacts and that is exactly what is seen.
7 - The consequence of an impact it tremendous release of energy (like an atomic bomb) and that does not carry with it any forward momentum. Such that there is not only a limit to the angle of attack but having achieved impact except for rare glancing blows by slow moving objects which aren't deflected, impacts even at an angle would produce a quasi circular crater.
8 - Do you envision that a nuclear bomb arriving by missle with forward momentum will produce a trench? No. It will produce a quasi circular crater.
There are three other factors that promote the quasi circular findings:
a - Most material being captured by a bodies gravity is coming from a limited angular orbital plane
b - and with a limited range of velocities.
c - The tendancy of producing quasi circular craters should be related to the gravitational strength of the body (producing a tendancy for more vertical impacts) and relative velocity ( higher energy release).
That is why the finding of glancing blows is increased in small astroids by other asteroids moving with less relative velocity and with no atmosphere.</font id="yellow">
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