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Thanks to Randall at Future Pundit, I was stumbling through the web looking for an article he had recommended about asteroids that was written in the economist, (still haven't found the one he was talking about) and I ran across this page instead- Vector Site. On to ye olde links page with it.
The page does a great job of taking a very scientific approach to analyzing the facts behind Earth Impacts.
-"We now know that Earth impacts, fairly big ones, are happening all the time. The late Eugene Shoemaker of the US Geological Survey came up with an estimate of the rate of Earth impacts, and suggested that an event about the size of the nuclear weapon that destroyed Hiroshima occurs about once a year.
Such events would seem to be spectacularly obvious, but they generally go unnoticed, for a number of reasons: the majority of the Earth's surface is covered by water; a good portion of the land surface is uninhabited; and the explosions generally occur at relatively high altitude, resulting in a huge flash and thunderclap but no real damage."
Enjoy.....
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