the whole skyrock-sea wave thing is the equivelent of shooting a .30-06 into puddle- wave height is determined by velocity, water depth, bottom structure, and impactor size. try this with your .30-06 (or other hi-power rifle) as an experiment. assuming you know how to handle a rifle, shoot the surface of a body of water that is 2 feet deep and note wave size. not what the wave does when it approaches and strikes a shallow sandy area and a steep banked area. then try it in water 2 inches deep and note wave size. the deeper the water is, the bigger the wave. the form of the wave is determined by the bottom structure. experiment with angles, bullet sizes and load velocities (may require hand loading). all will play a part in the funtion.
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>From: "Chris Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Meteorite-List" <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> >CC: Ron Baalke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] LANL: Meteor Could Cause Big Tsunami >Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:13:39 -0700 > >Are you sure about that? There is some question about the dynamics >of the water displacement- that is, most of it goes up, not out. And >that total volume of water is somewhere between a few tens and few >hundreds of cubic kilometers. Contrast that with the recent Indian >Ocean event. The shift in the ocean floor resulted in the >displacement of over 1000 cubic kilometers of water, and produced
>waves in most locations of 3-5 meters. > >While an asteroid impact seems like a dramatic thing, it is far from >obvious to me that tsunamis larger than 10s of meters would be a >natural result. Since simulations seem to show everything from a few >meters to 100 meters or so, I think I'll just reserve judgment until >those simulations settle down. > >Chris > >***************************************** >Chris L Peterson >Cloudbait Observatory >http://www.cloudbait.com > > >----- Original Message ----- From: "Sterling K. Webb" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Meteorite Mailing List" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: "Ron Baalke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 8:11 PM >Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] LANL: Meteor Could Cause Big Tsunami > > >>Hi, >>
>> Newspaper science strikes again! Or is it reporter science? >> The impact of an 800 meter asteroid "near" Florida (300 >>kilometers?) would >>produce a wave more 10 feet tall? Duh! >> This is an impact with more than 35,000,000,000 tons of TNT >>equivalent and >>would displace the ocean to a depth of 3500 meters in a "wet" >>crater 15 kilometers >>across. >> The tidal wave at the Florida cost would be hundreds of meters >>high (if not >>thousands)! It would kill every human inhabitant of Florida and >>most all the >>gators! You could stand on the highest point in Florida (near >>Micanopi) and watch >>it roll right over you (if you were anchored in concrete) hundreds >>of feet above. >> Can we persuade Sue to go there and report on it if it happens? >> >>Sterling K.
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