On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 03:59:04 -0500, you wrote: > I think that, by the indicated weights, they are referring to >the mass of the object to reach the ground at speed. You will >note that they say of the eight 25 pounders "if they landed," but >the vast majority never would.
A slight addition, if what they were calculating was a 25 lb meteorite hitting "at speed", meaning full cosmic velocity, then that person about to be hit would probably have something else to worry about-- namely "why am I standing in a column of vacuum that extends to the top of the atmosphere?" and would probably die of asphyxiation before the 25 pounder reached him. ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
