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Asteroid Impact Damage?
Lunch conversation today included a brief discussion of the asteroid that narrowly missed the Earth on Monday. One of my co-workers was saying that it would cause more damage if it hit solid ground rather than one of the oceans, but I seem to remember reading that the opposite was actually the case. Of course, I can't remember where I read that, so I'm hoping that someone here either knows or can point me in the right direction to cites.
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Maximum Proconsul
Re: Asteroid Impact Damage?
I seem to recall the same thing: water impact more devestating. In addition to being quite a bit more likely as well.
There are several impact calculators available online, but so far none of them are capable of tsunami data.
This paper, however, seems to say otherwise.
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Re: Asteroid Impact Damage?
It should be noted that for asteroids of sufficient size, striking even the deep ocean is identical to striking dry land, with added tsunami-y goodness. These superheavyweights, several miles across, simply punch through, pushing the water aside as if it weren't even there to gouge into the bedrock below.
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