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ninkendoyesterday at 11:35 PM1 replyview on HN

A single “rubble pile” asteroid will easily break apart when nearing a celestial body, once it crosses the Roche limit. It will break apart into a perfectly straight line too (at least the impact craters will.) I would guess most of the straight-line series of craters are all caused by something like this.


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kQq9oHeAz6wLLStoday at 1:27 AM

Strafing fire from an alien warship will leave similar craters, assuming sufficiently large kinetic energy weapons.