If a giant eruption happened in yellowstone, would it send rocks to space, which would then fall back down on earth? Is the second part o that question. In celidus, its plumes, you know, go 200 clometers high and and make the ering of saturns. But i may be wrong, but i don't, i don't think that can happen on earth. And even if it did eject from the volcano at escape velocity, the atmosphere is going to tamp that down,. It will not likely ever escape the earth, because it won't maintain that velocity.
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