Guys, Just a thought experiment I had since we are near a solar maxima.
If the average CME is a billion tons and three per day occur on average somewhere on the surface during maxima, moving between 30 and 3000 miles/second, how come we are not struck by Mt Everest (est. weight a billion tons as a cone) more often? Where is all that "stuff" going? On Saturday, February 9, 2013, David Roberson wrote: > This would be true if the pieces came down over a large area and at a > moderate number per hour. I suspect that a large mass of individual pieces > coming down close together would behave a lot like one big one. The energy > contained within the large mass of individual meteorites would be about the > same as that in one. > > Dave > > > -----Original Message----- > From: mixent <[email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > '[email protected]');>> > To: vortex-l <[email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > '[email protected]');>> > Sent: Sat, Feb 9, 2013 10:51 pm > Subject: Re: [Vo]:Near earth asteroid info > > In reply to de Bivort Lawrence's message of Thu, 7 Feb 2013 23:28:29 -0500: > Hi, > >Wouldn't blowing up an asteroid merely create a lot of smaller pieces raining > down on earth, with only a few deflected into non-collision paths. > > If the pieces are small enough, they will burn up in the atmosphere > harmlessly. > > [snip] > > > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html > >
