Large Asteroid to Safely Pass Earth on Sept. 1 - Page 3

Reece · 09-03-17, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

If it were a mile from earth that would put it most of the way through our atmosphere. Chances are the whole thing would explode like the Tunguska explosion in 1908. The Tunguska meteor/asteroid/whateveritwas is estimated to have been only 150 feet in diameter and leveled 800 square miles of dense forest.

Maybe it will pass over North Korea!!

Platapus · 09-04-17, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

The Tunguska meteor/asteroid/whateveritwas is estimated to have been only 150 feet in diameter and leveled 800 square miles of dense forest.

I still have a hard time conceptualizing the energy transfer that was involved in that incident.

Gerald · 09-04-17, 06:33 PM

Much energy was that,

Jimbuna · 09-05-17, 04:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Reece

Maybe it will pass over North Korea!!

We should be so lucky

09-04-17, 06:33 PM	#33
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