[meteorite-list] Carancas Bull

[GeoZay at aol.com]

>>Does anyone know whether shock  waves crated by an object the size of  
Carancas could have been  sufficient to have killed a nearby bull?<<

I don't have a clue as  to how big the Carancas object would have been, but 
factoring in the objects  velocity upon impact, I'd guess there would have been 
a big whallop. I can't  help comparing the effects of the rock slide in 
Yosemite National Park ten or so  years ago. In that incident, the rock that 
suddenly sloughed off the cliff a  thousand or two feet up caused one heck of a 
concussion. No doubt there was a  lot, lot more material to come off that cliff 
than what the Carancas impactor  was. But when the Yosemite rocks hit the 
ground, the concussion itself blew over  many large trees...some 3 or 4 feet in 
diameter. I don't know the exact figures,  but I feel comfortable in thinking that 
the Carancas shock waves could have been  sufficient to kill a bull if it was 
of close proximity. 
GeoZay  

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