A ten-foot sized rock would make a nice streak across the night sky. Sorry, folks, it won’t take out DC or any of your other favorite Sodoms and/or Gomorrahs. It is amazing that we can track the orbit of an object that small.
Fifty foot rock? That’s another story. I’ll get back to you on that one.
It is amazing that we can track the orbit of an object that small.
But we cannot rtack a moving mass of over 12 million illegal invaders.
Well, we discovered it Friday. That part isn’t encouraging.
“It is amazing that we can track the orbit of an object that small.”
Amen that
If its a dense enough object, ya never know.. I’d like a shot. A chunk of the action could be quite lucrative. :-)
Imagine what a couple really big ones could do...
http://www.threeimpacts-twoevents.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Geologic-Sensemaking-Simultaneous-Impacts-10May2013.pdf
Do you need bigger Dura-Cells in your calculator to compute the Kinetic Energy of a 50 footer?
(:-)