To: Elsie
Extraterrestrial object(S) with a three-mile girth(s) ... do NOT explode, they just keep barreling on!!
Only small things can heat up sufficiently in the atmosphere to do this.
A much smaller object burst in the air over Siberia in 1908...
22 posted on
05/22/2007 5:16:21 AM PDT by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
A little confusing isn’t it. I kinda got the impression that the comet impacted a ice field near the great lakes, even thou the article stated exploded in the atmosphere. Maybe he/sho considers ice a mile or more high atmosphere? LOL.
35 posted on
05/22/2007 8:26:56 AM PDT by
jpsb
To: Elsie
Extraterrestrial object(S) with a three-mile girth(s) ... do NOT explode, they just keep barreling on!! Only small things can heat up sufficiently in the atmosphere to do this. True, but a comet isn't solid like an asteroid, so if it hit at a shallow angle much of it could have burned away in the atmosphere and ground impacts could have been limited to much smaller fragments.
38 posted on
05/22/2007 10:22:49 AM PDT by
Mr. Jeeves
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