To: Izzy Dunne
The Barringer crater in Arizona has quite a record of an even closer approach... It seems to me I recall that the meteor that caused that crater was 90 feet in diameter. This one was slightly larger. Though I don't know why they are calling it an asteroid. Asteroids start at several kilometers in diameter, do they not?
35 posted on
03/17/2004 11:39:03 PM PST by
DentsRun
To: DentsRun
Well, I just checked. Looks like Meteor Crater was caused by a nickel-iron meteor 150 feet in diameter traveling 40,000 mph. That would make it a lot bigger and faster than the one that will be missing us tomorrow.
39 posted on
03/17/2004 11:51:08 PM PST by
DentsRun
To: DentsRun
Asteroids start at several kilometers in diameter, do they not?I do not think that they change to the meteor terminology unless an astroid hits the atmosphere.
Then it becomes a meteor or meterorite if it survives.
55 posted on
03/18/2004 12:39:29 AM PST by
Cold Heat
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