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To: <1/1,000,000th%

The one that grazed Russia a few years ago was estimated at 20 meters, and exploded with about 30 times the energy of the Hiroshima bomb. So at 38 meters .....

I wouldn’t want it landing on my yard. Or my town for that matter.


69 posted on 02/29/2016 9:20:49 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: 21twelve

Back in high school, I wrote a paper for my science course, based mostly on J. E. Enever’s 1966 article in Analog Magazine “Giant Meteor Impact”, which described the effects of a large impact in the sea, and the likely effects on the climate.

Enever speculated on even larger impacts, with the impact of a Juno-esque body being “the recipe for instant Pasteurized planet”. I have been fascinated ever since, and of course Shomaker-Levy hitting Jupiter was amazing too...


75 posted on 02/29/2016 10:18:58 PM PST by Paul R.
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To: 21twelve

Well it did break some windows and send some people to the hospital with cuts.


94 posted on 03/01/2016 8:19:56 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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