THE END OF THE WORLD IS NIGH!

[bc7683023]

http://www.dailymail....O=1708&referrer=yahoo

Good news for us but not so good for our kids/grandkids if its true. 1,800 feet so roughly a third of a mile? Would this seriously destroy the earth? Whats the speed of this thing and would it matter whether it hit ocean or land?

[T&S]

Phew....good job I'm busy that day!

[bc7683023]

T&S unless cryogenics make an amazing breakthrough then nearly all of us will be busy................. feeding worms.

[Count-A-Strong]

You can tell there's no serious news.

[bc7683023]

Id call a plane crash in Pakistan serious count.

[McMouse]

By then there will be technology to determine where it should land. I know where I would choose.

[Count-A-Strong]

Yeah but that only fills one page, two at most.

[jake-the-peg]

A thousand to one against eh?

We'll just keep an eye on it shall we?

The Yukutan asteroid that contributed to the dinosaurs demise was about 10Km across but 600m would be a major impact. The Tuinguska asteroid would have been about 60m if that's what it was.

Not too bad in Siberia but imagine the Tsunami if it hit smack in the North Atlantic

[bc7683023]

Mcmouse Katie prices house hopefully.

[bc7683023]

At 600m in the Atlantic what size Tsunamis could we expect? Also what speeds do these things travel at, do some asteroids travel considerably faster than others in space or are size and whether they have been thrown towards us from a planets gravitational field?

[Azalian]

If you can find it, read "Giant Meteor Impact" by J.E.Enever published about 1950 or so.

It goes into detail about what happens when a major piece of solar system, ahem... hardware strikes the surface of our planet.

Just about the scariest thing I ever read.and factually accurate too......