[meteorite-list] LANL: Meteor Could Cause Big Tsunami

From: MexicoDoug_at_aol.com <MexicoDoug_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Jan 11 10:22:43 2005
Message-ID: <f4.47e605de.2f154926_at_aol.com>

En un mensaje con fecha 01/10/2005 9:45:52 PM Mexico Standard Time,
kelly_at_bhil.com escribe:

>You could stand on the highest point in Florida (near Micanopi) and watch
>it roll right over you (if you were anchored in concrete) hundreds of feet
above.
>Can we persuade Sue to go there and report on it if it happens?
 
Micanopy, a very quaint town with a few rolling hills, is south of
Gainsville going towards Ocala basically in Central Florida----but the highest point
in Florida is north of Ft. Walton Beach (closer to Pensacola in the extreme
west and north, and a skip from Alabama) 345 feet above normal sea level.
 
The Tsunami would have to completely roll over Penninsular (East) Florida
and half way across the panhandle (West Florida) to cover the highest point in
Florida. It would probably take another hit to the Gulf to do that with
confidence. But your original point, is still, of course, right, in that a half
miler surviving and impacting in the Atlantic would be best observed from the
top of Space Mountain in DisneyWorld if the Singing Citrus tower were sold
out to house a certain listmember's meteorite collection:)
Saludos, Doug
 
 
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