Ben Birdsey wrote in message <36ACDB1A.5A936E38@unlgrad1.unl.edu>...
> That's a really amazing asteroid!  It may be the best CG asteroid I've
ever
>seen (well, outside Armageddon...)
>
> A couple of comments.
>
> From pictures I've seen of large asteroids, the craters seem to be filled
up.
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> I recently read an article in Nature which was about what a massive impact
>would do to an asteroid (If I remember right, they were simulating a rock
the
>size of a house impacting at 20,000 mph).  Well, the bottom line was this.
It
>looks like any impact that could make a crater of any size (>0.25 the size
of
>the asteroid) would totally shatter it!  But there is that moon of Jupiter
or
>Saturn with a crater that makes it look like the death star!
>
There are a few meteorites on display in museums (The Smithsonian's sure to
have one, as well as Meteor Crater, Arizona)

> Anyway, just tell everyone it's artistic license.
like what looks like a submarine in the Pearl Harbour scene on the IRTC
page?
Someone told me that there were no submarines at Pearl at the time of the
attack (He was a WW2 vet that served in the south Pacific at the time)
>
> In Him,
> Ben Birdsey
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