Terry, I laughed when I heard the first estimates that it only weighed 10 tons. Have you looked at the mass of big boulders lately? A ton is tiny.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: Terry Blanton <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:49 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:49 AM, ChemE Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > You, like NASA, are off by at least a factor of 1000... > > http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/19/russian-meteorite-1000-times-bigger-than-originally-thought/ That article makes no sense at all. Maybe they mean the energy released was bigger; but, they still say it was only 15 m in diameter. Oh, I see, the density was 1000 times greater. Well, heck, we must have had a piece of a neutron star hit us. <sigh>
