1.   Since extinctions can not cause impacts, the most economical explanation seems to be that the impacts caused the extinctions!

2.   The impact caused my fistfuls of weed to rip off the rock with a sickening, slimy, ripping sound.

3.   The impact had caused a massive explosion which had ravaged the planet.

4.   If the cometary impacts on Jupiter cause only shallow disruptions of its atmosphere, the huge blotches the impacts have left may fade and disappear fairly soon.

5.   Kaku said those odds are based on the assumption that only a meteoroid impact could cause the craft to plunge toward Earth.

6.   Minor impacts can cause holes.

7.   Petzold was wearing a seat belt but no shoulder strap, and the impact caused her backbone to break below her waist.

8.   Some astronomers had speculated that the white spots that have been occasionally seen on Saturn are caused by impacts of comets like the one that struck Jupiter in August.

9.   The impact caused an explosion.