Sean Kane wrote:
> 
> http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/06/20/asteroid.miss/index.html
> 
> Just another close call after the fact story.  Not really
> earth-shattering...  "the size of a football field" (what is the depth of a
> football field and are we talking American or the rest of the world
> football?). 

An American football field is 360 feet long (counting the end zones) and
160 feet wide.  http://www.nfl.com/fans/rules/field.html

Football for the rest of the world (except Canadian football) has a
wider field, IIRC.  You can't really play professional soccer in the US
in a football stadium because it's not wide enough, if I'm remembering
what I was told/read about it recently.  For Canadian football, the
total length of the field is 450 feet (110 yards + 2(20 yard end zone) =
150 yards = 450 feet) and the width is 195 feet (65 yards). 
http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~leblancj/stampeders/compare.html

That's all I have time to find now on this.  Can someone post the
dimensions of a regulation soccer (football to everyone not in the
northern 2 countries of North America) field?

        Julia

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