Does anyone have knowledge of how bad things would have been had the meteorite come straight in a vertical fashion? I suspect that the effect would have been far worse. The distance traveled by this one through the atmosphere was several times longer than it could have been.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: Eric Walker <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Mar 1, 2013 12:27 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:Russian meteor coincidence odds On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Alexander Hollins <[email protected]> wrote: then it can be estimated to have happened 454 THOUSAND times in Earth's history. This raises an interesting philosophical problem. The simultaneous events were perhaps coincidence in a human timeframe (ours), and clearly systematic in a geological timeframe. Does this point up a sort of relativity of systematicity? Let me just say how cool it was to watch the meteor streak across the sky in the video where it travels from left to right. And to think it was 10,000 times heavier than the original 10 tons estimated for it. It was a slow-burning nuclear bomb of sorts. I bet the special effects people will be studying the videos for some time to get the optical effects right. Eric
