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So far, over 200 asteroid impact craters have been identified on the earth and more are expected to be found. The craters, ranging is sized from 1 to 160+ kilometers across, have been found in nearly every geological stratigraphic unit, from the Pre-Cambrian to the Tertiary.

Since most creationary geologists consider nearly all the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic sedimentary layers to be Flood Catastrophe deposits, then the asteroid impacts occurred during that catastrophe. They are envisioned to have impacted the earth in much the same way as Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacted Jupeter.

The affect that such impacts would have on the earth has been speculated on by hundreds of scientists as they have surmised about the proposed K/T impact killing of the dinosaurs. The special effects technicians for the movie "Deep Impact" based thier protrayal on the descriptions scientists have developed. Explosions estimated at over 1 million megatons and tsunami thousands of feet high is commonly proposed.

The 200 impacts on the earth may represent only a third of what could have impacted the planet because the oceans cover 2/3s of the globe. So it is concievable that there may have been about 600 impacts.

The most catastrophic portion of the Flood was the first 150 days. After that the earth was allowed to begin to settle back toward equilibrium. The 'windows of heaven' were closed at that time. 600 impacts within that time means that there were on average 4 impacts per day - one every 6 hours.

What would that many impacts in such a short time do to life on earth? Scientists are proposing that a single asteroid impact wiped out the dinosaurs!

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