At 08:32 AM 6/21/02 -0500, you wrote: >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
Sorry to send you on that info search Julia... consequences of dropping the smiley. But thanks! :), even if Alberto is going to yellow card you on a non-metric units penalty. ;-) It just seemed an odd way to describe the size of the asteroid to me. I think I know what they were getting at, but I can't help but imagine a 2001 like monolith that's long, half as wide, and the depth of a blade of grass :-) Sean
