@PerkyVelociraptor

11 months ago

I was surprised that none of the main theories focused on the fact that it landed in a bog. As in bog gasses, which are explosive. Swamp gasses have been identified as the cause of explosions before. So, an impact event would be more than enough for gasses trapped in the bog to ignite. Maybe even before/simultaneous to the rock fragments actually hitting, the heat ignites the gasses and triggers the explosion. Hence the charred trees, and also the trees in the immediate area still standing. An explosion from the gasses would have exerted sudden pressure from below and all around, so not pushing the trees in any one direction at the epicentre. That would also explain the sounds heard after, it's the debris blown apart from the explosion being rocketed out and hitting things. And for the impact site itself, it would be smaller than would usually be needed for a shock wave of that size, if the gas explosion was the main source of the shock wave. And also, it's a bog. Bogs are spongy ground, with an upper layer of peat, so the indent from impacts would probably be filled in quite quickly. Which would explain the impact site as level. The theory about volcanic gasses has the gas element there, but this would be much more likely. It's a bog, so gas presence would be likely. And there wouldn't be signs of a big gas bubble built up within the bog afterwards, as the gasses would have burned up in the explosion.

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