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If one could throw any object at the earth with the goal of causing something comparable to the K-Pg extinction event, how would the mass of the object scale to the speed/force required? At what point would an object be too light to achieve this at sub-relativistic speeds?

by /u/N0thingtosee in /r/askscience

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