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To: cmj328
The one that left the crater in Arizona is 1184m wide

Latest numbers i read say around 50 meters wide.

58 posted on 09/06/2010 8:40:55 PM PDT by HP8753 (Live Free!!!! .............or don't.)
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To: cmj328; HP8753
>> The one that left the crater in Arizona is 1184m wide

> Latest numbers i read say around 50 meters wide.

Correct -- the 1184m figure is the width of the crater, not of the meteoroid that caused it. That's not to minimize the object -- after all, it weighed around 300,000 tons! (Almost all of which vaporized either during descent or on impact.)

60 posted on 09/06/2010 10:03:49 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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