ChemE Stewart <cheme...@gmail.com> wrote: Just getting whacked by the either the ion tail or the dust/debris tail > could be a terrible event. >
I do not think so. I have heard that the tail of a comet is practically a vacuum. The whole volume of earth has only grams of mass. So, a miss is just a miss. The fundamental things apply. (Newtonian physics). > One of the twenty or so Shoemaker-Levy 9 nuclei left a dark spot on > Jupiter the size of the Pacific Ocean. > The nucleus has all the mass. The UniverseToday article confirms that the energy release is estimated at 2*10E10 MT. (20 billion MT). - Jed
