[meteorite-list] Shoemaker levy?

From: nakhladog_at_attbi.com <*nakhladog_at_meteoritecentral.com*> Date: Thu Apr 22 10:22:37 2004 Message-ID: <20030612185320.1DF1853B39_at_pairlist.net> · nakhladog_at_meteoritecentral.com

--
Rob Wesel
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are the dreamers of the dreams.
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> 
> --- Tom aka James Knudson <knudson911_at_frontiernet.net>
> wrote:
> > Hello List, I am curious and know someone could
> > answer this! If shoemaker
> > levy or similar thing hit our moon instead of
> > Jupiter, what would be the
> > results to our moon and what effects would it have
> > on the Earth?
> > 
> > Thanks, Tom
> > The proudest member of the IMCA 6168
> > 
> > 
> >
> 
> I read somewhere, recently, like last year, that a
> major impact event on the moon would or could create a
> crater 20 miles or more in diameter.  This would
> liberate and millions of tons of lunar material out
> into space as a cloud.... and much of this would then
> a few days later rain onto the earth, and we would
> have meteor shower unlike any ever seen by man, a
> thousand times greater then even the Great Leonid
> Storm of 1966.
> 
> And small Lunar meteorites would rain down in many
> places throughout the world.
> 
> 
> Steve Schoner/AMS
> http://www.geocities.com/meteorite_identification
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