Hello Richard, All, 60 feet or meters - either way you're getting a crater unless you get a spectacular strewnfield for some reason (I'm thinking on a Gibeon-ish scale, which we all know is unique). 60 meters would likely be larger than the Canyon Diablo impact, depending on the impactor's composition and velocity, and you wouldn't want to be within a hundred miles of that one - if you value your general health and eardrums. A 60 foot impactor, on the other hand - well, again, it depends on its size and composition. Some size estimates for the Meteor Crater impactor run as low as 80 feet. - So you probably don't want to be close enough to see it. The shockwave at "a few 10s of kilometers" would be devastating.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlkop/meteorcr.html Regards, Jason On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Richard Kowalski <[email protected]> wrote: > Richard Kowalski wrote: >> >> Bill, >> >> I know of a large number of meteorite hunters and collectors that would be >> rushing towards the impact zone for an object this size and smaller. >> >> I'm not sure how close I'd want to be to a 60 meter... > > > Sorry I meant 60 foot > > Richard > > > > > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
