Hello Everybody,

Wanna know what it would be like if the Earth is hit by an asteroid?
Check out this url -

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/

The web page depicts an actual program which you can input whatever
variables you wish to determine the impact of an asteroid.

For example -

Distance from impact
Projectile diameter
Projectile density (4 different kinds of asteroids)
Impact velocity
Impact angle (most hit at 45 degrees, but can set to 90 degrees)
Target type
-Water of depth (if asteroid to hit in body of water)
-Sedimentary rock
-Crystalline rock

It is a very simple program to use, and takes only seconds for
results to be processed.

Nothing to download.  It is all on line.

In regards to politics, catastrophic events such as an asteroid impact
would definitely have an effect on world politics.  Heck, even entire
nations might be destroyed!  And that would create quite a power vacuum.

We have already seen what a small asteroid impact can do, with the
recent Asian tsunami of December 26, 2004.  Imagine if a much larger
asteroid had hit just off the coast of NYC.  Not only would NYC be
destroyed, but also much of the East Coast.  Not to mention massive
earthquakes and tidal waves elsewhere.

--Lee


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