Thread: Small Asteroid Passes Between Satellites and Earth
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Old 22-December-2004, 08:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Evan
Unless it was a stony iron or nickel iron which together comprise about 25% of asteroids. That would be big enough to ruin your day if it fell closeby.
Yea, the Simple but fairly accurate Solar System Collisions page says it would be a Siberian type even that releases just a tad more energy than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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