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LEXLOTHOR — Asteroid Flash
Published: 2008-06-22 23:27:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 1669; Favourites: 29; Downloads: 24
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More of my paleontology illustration appears in this gallery:[link]
This is the moment of impact of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.
It is a hand colored version of a pen and ink illustration I prepared for an unpublished article. It led into the subject of what might have happened had the K/T extinction not happened.
art (c) John P. Alexander
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this is an amazing picture.
I was wondering what would happen if the moon got in the way of the asteroid.
here is Apophys coming up, and if moon got in the way, could it shield us, or would the impact tear it apart?
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Actually the K/T impactor has been calculated to be less massive than the asteroid that created the crater Copernicus on the moon billions of years ago. The moon would have just have had another bright rayed crater on its surface. Had this happened the sight would today only be appreciated by dinosaurs.
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looks like moon is not as brittle as I sometimes seem to think XD
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ooh what a beautiful moment of impact ^^ very very nice work
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THANX I am surprised at how well these AE illos have been received. They were essentially gathering dust in my dead file.
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Or, possibly, be in orbit on the right side of the planet...which certainly wasn't an option for any terrestrial being until the late 1950's, 67+ million years later. Boggles the mind.
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For me, three aspects of this piece stand out:
(1) the discordant beauty of the impact's flash against the clouds;
(2) that perplexed stare on the faces of theropod and pterosaur alike;
and (3) the fine perspective work on the various dinos & bits of background foliage.
Thanks for posting.
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Your welcome.
What is depicted is only a thousandth of the size of the Chixalub impact. To see the flash and not be close enough to be vaporized would require a distance of many hundreds of kilometers, so that the impact would be beyond the horizon from the witness' perspective.
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love the scene especially were it impacts .and really great colors in this one.
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I based the image on H-bomb tests conducted in the Pacific Ocean in the 1950's.
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