[meteorite-list] re: Tsunami from impact

[Marco Langbroek]

Martin wrote:

> As You all see in TV, Indonesia and other countries was devastated by
> Tsunami produced by big Earthquake. How You think, what size of
> meteorite/asteroide can produce the same effects ?

The results on tsunami generation differ from model to model, sometimes
considerably. Moreover, it is also dependant on entry speed and composition of
the impactor.

But taking one source (Hills & Goda's modellling, "The breakup of small
asteroids in the atmosphere", Astronomical Journal 105 (1993), 1114-1144), this
indicates that for a 10 yards heigh tsunami when reaching shore at 1000 km of
the source, this corresponds to an impactor body roughly 50-100 yards wide.

- Marco

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Dr Marco Langbroek
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Leiden, the Netherlands
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