Wednesday, January 30, 2008

New Research into Asteroid Impact Destruction

New supercomputer research has allowed researchers to better estimate the size of the asteroid that hit Siberia a century ago, allowing them to better predict future damage caused by asteroids. This would potentially allow them to evacuate the area in danger of an impact.

Here is the link: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/01/29/asteroid.recalculated.ap/index.html

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