Incredible timing. Just an hour before I checked my email and found Patrick's post, I read in the June S&T, page 38: "Some astronomers predict that there is about a 30% chance of a Tunguska-sized airburst occurring somewhere on earth during the 21st century". While this impact (not an airburst apparently) appears to be much, much smaller than the Tunguska event, it still serves as a reminder of just how vulnerable we are on this pale, blue dot. Here's where the google search will direct you: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/09/2355259 --- Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
I'm still putting something together for tomorrow's News but if you want an advance look do a Google search for "Norway meteorite"
One Norwegian astronomer is being quoted as saying "If the meteorite was as large as it seems to have been, we can compare it to the Hiroshima bomb."
Patrick
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