"Gordon D. Pusch" wrote:

"El Guapo" writes:

"Richard Lamb" wrote in message
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26,000 miles?

Less than 3 Earth diameters?

First noticed, excuse me, Monday?

Why did the hair stand up on the back of my neck?


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...And even if it _had_ reached the ground, given the data on this object
provided at http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news142.html, its impact energy
would have only been about 800 kilotons: Enough to mess up a city rather badly,
but by no means a "Civilization Killer," let alone a "Mass Extinctioner"...

-- Gordon D. Pusch

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Thank you, Gordon.

I guess hijacking this thread might have implied such,
but no, I didn't think a 100 foot rock could be that dangerous.

At least not at such (relatively) low speed, anyway.

I'm assuming that this particular rock is at it's lowest speed?

And I don't have a clue as to how much of it would have burned
off in the atmosphere before impact. Seems like it would depend
a lot on the particular path taken.

From the diagrams on the NEO site, it looks like it will be by again
soon on the way back in.

I'm guessing - what - 6 to 8 weeks?



Richard