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To: mondonico

It's the equivalent, relative mass and momentum wise, of a bug hitting the window of a semi.


7 posted on 05/16/2005 9:12:07 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Strategerist

At the relative impact speed the impactor and part of the comet will be vaporized and partly ionized in a brilliant flash. If a bug did that to the windshield of my Peterbilt, a cross-country drive would be more interesting.


8 posted on 05/16/2005 9:14:59 AM PDT by RightWhale (These problems would not exist if we had had a moon base all along)
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