To: Joe Hadenuf
City?
Try country or continent!
21 posted on
03/17/2004 11:10:28 PM PST by
Fledermaus
(Ðíé F£éðérmáú§ ^;;^ says, "Tick off France, Germany, Spain and Al Qaeda - VOTE BUSH!)
To: Fledermaus; Joe Hadenuf
Okay...maybe not a continent at that size.
And probably not an entire country, but a region after the effects. Say it hit Atlanta. Could effect cities as far away as Boston enough to kill.
22 posted on
03/17/2004 11:12:53 PM PST by
Fledermaus
(Ðíé F£éðérmáú§ ^;;^ says, "Tick off France, Germany, Spain and Al Qaeda - VOTE BUSH!)
To: Fledermaus; Physicist; RightWhale; Old_Professor; Joe Hadenuf
Hmmm...you'd think that a 100 foot diameter asteroid would be down to around 60 feet cubed by the time it impacted.
If made entirely of nickel (541 pounds per cubic foot) and you had 60 feet * 60 feet * 60 feet, that would be what, 117 million pounds or so traveling at roughly 15,000 miles per hour?
That's some energy!
27 posted on
03/17/2004 11:21:02 PM PST by
Southack
(Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Fledermaus
Way to close. This thing is about 35 meters in diameter and would wreak havoc on any major city it happened to hit.
City? Try country or continent!
Not quite, a 30 meter asteroid would not destroy the country, or a continent. Like I said, if it struck in or near a big city, the destruction would be immense and one for the history books. The rest of the continent would survive quite nicely and have lots of breaking news to watch.
130 posted on
03/18/2004 9:17:40 AM PST by
Joe Hadenuf
(I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)
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