Asteroids

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Asteroids
Danger

The universe is a shooting gallery and earth is the bullseye. The earth is
always under threat of a doomesday asteroid that will wipe out civilization.
There are over one thousand asteroids traveling toward earth and only three
quarters are accounted for. Where are the other one forth? No one knows because
the government doesn't fund NASA astrologists enough to cover the astroids. Just
one impact could end civilization as we know it. No matter where it hits
everything would die, even bacteria. To give an estimate how much is spent on
asteroid detection. It is said to be less than the cost to operate a single
McDonald's franchise. Total disaster would occur no matter where the asteroid
hit. Land, sea it doesn't matter. Ocean impact would create a number of things.
First, a Tsunami(tidal wave) would be created on impact. The wave would be
hundreds for feet high traveling hundreds of miles per hour. It would start to
slow down crashing ashore through all coastal city. Then, finally wash up
hundreds for miles inland. " The mid-Atlantic Ocean impact ranging from 400
meters to 5 kilometers in diameter. This would generate a tsunami that would
sweep across the upper East Coast of the United States to the Appalachian
Mountains."(Gottschalk 1) The blast of the impact would equal a 300 gigaton
blast of T.N.T. Also, 2.4 seconds after impact, a small fireball with a
temperature of 5000'C would sweep across long island. A land fall strike would
cause total divistation. The asteroid would create a earth trembling impact
causing earth qu...

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