[extropy-chat] 1908 asteroid

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Al Brooks <kerry_prez at yahoo.com> wrote:

> this link theorizes the 1908 asteroid explosion over
> Siberia was
> approximately 500 kilotons, i.e. equivalent to large
> hydrogen bomb. The article reassuringly states that
> such an asteroid 'impact', about six kilometers up in
> the atmosphere, might occur over a populated area
> every 3600 years.
> http://www.psi.edu/projects/siberia/siberia.html

I'm wondering if they've counted a similar but smaller bolide event in
the 19th century in the midwestern US.

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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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