It just seems to me that 1 CME avg per day x 1.2 Billion Tons/CME x 4.5 Billion Years old x 365 days/year = LOTS OF ordinary STUFF floating around the solar system. Of course I am thinking lots of it is collapsed matter but what do I know.
Stewart On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 7:10 PM, David Roberson <[email protected]>wrote: > > I realized I was preaching to the choir a bit with my broken up asteroid >> versus one big bad one. But, I actually do think that the total amount of >> energy deposited into the atmosphere and ground would be the same in either >> case. If it would destroy all the life on earth as a single hit, I would >> think it would do the same even if distributed over a large area. The >> energy is what does the damage. The light show would be most beautiful >> until the shock wave tore you into pieces. That would be a great way to >> leave the world! > > > I suspect this is mistaken. Think of the difference between the momentum > in a regular bullet, and the same momentum in the same amount of metal, > pressed into a very thin foil with a large area. In the limiting case, I > think the foil would be mostly harmless. In the example of the meteor > versus the dust of the meteor once it has been blown to smithereens, it is > the concentration of the momentum that seems most important. > > Eric > >
