Sentences with phrase «small asteroid struck»
In October of 1990 a very small asteroid struck the Pacific Ocean with a blast about the size of the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima, killing roughly thousands of people in seconds.
http://www.spaceref.com/ Not exact matches
A relatively small 150 - foot asteroid that struck Tunguska, Siberia, in 1908 packed the punch of 15 million tons of TNT, equivalent to the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated by the United States.
He and the few others in this small field have excavated evidence of 15 enormous asteroid strikes that occurred between 1.7 billion and 3.5 billion years ago.
The odds are vanishingly small that an asteroid will strike a particular spot on Earth.
The tentative verdict is that this probably is the remnant of a recent asteroid collision, where a smaller body struck a larger object at a velocity of about 15,000 kilometer per hour.
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While I'm posting (I can see how you guys get into this) I'm also very uncomfortable with your notion of «tacit knowledge:» it certainly seems to be tacit knowledge in the blogosphere that the chances of the climate sensitivity (equilibrium warming on indefinite stabilization at 560ppm CO2, for the non-enthusiasts) being greater than or equal to 6 degrees are too small to be worth worrying about (meaning down at the level of an asteroid strike).
A strike by a large asteroid or small comet nucleus (1 kilometer or greater) is but one of several kinds of independent high energy events that could destroy humanity and probably a significant number of other species as well.
The reason I stuck with it is that it's hard to find a demographer or other expert on population and social trends who sees even a small chance of humankind's peaking at anything lower than nine billion — barring some catastrophic epidemic or asteroid strike.