Comments on: Tunguska study: Small asteroids pack a wallop
A computer simulation shows fast-moving fireball amplifies the damage done by a smaller asteroid impact, Sandia National Laboratories researchers conclude.
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The think about Tunguska meteor is that it exploded over an uninhabited forest. If this asteroid had exploded over even a small city, the effects on human life would have been a lot worse. Asteroids of this size actually could be protected against by evacuating the area that it is going to impact.
- Define Smaller
- by cubesquared January 2, 2008 12:40 PM PST
- Well now, just how small are we talkin' here?
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