

| Subject: | Re: Friday - hazards to our van (LVC) |
| From: | Andrew Grebneff |
| Date: | Fri, 17 Jan 2003 22:04:29 +1300 |
>Well, as they say a size of a football field 10km is a BIG football field! >caused an ice age that wiped >out the dinosaurs, No ice age resulted. But there were tsunamis kilometers high and global fires. >then the size of a football at the same speed can do >what? I'm no physicist or rocket scientists but I still do not believe it. I >think it could have caused a massive explosion. I think we are much too >gullible. But what do I know for sure. Explosions result from large masses impacting... a small chip of natural stainless steel (not football-sized at all) wouldn't have enough momentum to make even a small crater, but has enough energy to damage a flimsy sheetmetal cosntuction like a car body. >I just can not believe a rock that size traveling at high enough speed to >burn in our atmosphere will only go through a vehicle without an explosion. It was constantly ablating due to heat as it descended; there was almost nothing left when it landed.
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