[meteorite-list] Japanese immpact animation video

[Darren Garrison]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 04:52:27 -0500, you wrote:

>    It models the impact of a 600-to-900 kilometer
>object, the size of 1 Ceres, the biggest minor planet,

Where do you get that number?  I interpreted "slightly bigger than the breadth
of Honshu" to be the measure of the width of Honshu, not the length-- which
would be from 50 to 230 km.  If it was length, we're talking 1300 km.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honshu

For me at least my trust in the credability of the "simulation" was damaged from
the very beginning when the asteroid was shown to be volcanic.

BTW, if anyone wants to save the video, it should be stored in your web browser
cache with the extension *.flv.