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To: dumpdaschle; Joe Hadenuf
This site has some interesting info - http://users.tpg.com.au/users/tps-seti/spacegd7.html and there is information on this site about the tsunami effect caused by asteriods.

Yup, that pretty well agrees with what I learned on this subject. The 400meter object is far from a planet killer, and the better prediction of impact area (if it does in fact hit) the better chances we have of avoiding a high death toll, as I mentioned in my #111 above.

115 posted on 12/28/2004 3:50:17 PM PST by konaice
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To: konaice
A 400 meter asteroid, if it hit in the ocean, would produce a tsunami larger than that caused by the recent earthquake.

This web site - http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/asteroid_paine_september.html
is easier for a non-scientist like me to understand compared with my earlier link. It gives the example of a 500 yard (bigger but in roughly the same ball park) asteroid producing a runup wave height of up to 120 feet at 1000 miles from impact. The actual wave height depends on the topography of the shore.

116 posted on 12/28/2004 5:08:20 PM PST by dumpdaschle (Demand that French imperialists leave the Ivory Coast.)
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