I think you need to take into account that the Earth is a very tiny target at our distance from the sun. Perhaps you should calculate roughly how much of that CME actually impacts us per unit of surface area. Since it begins as a plasma, it most likely is not dense enough to cause much trouble.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: ChemE Stewart <cheme...@gmail.com> To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Sun, Feb 10, 2013 7:51 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:Near earth asteroid info Guys, Just a thought experiment I had since we are near a solar maxima. If the average CME is a billion tons and three per day occur on average somewhere on the surface during maxima, moving between 30 and 3000 miles/second, how come we are not struck by Mt Everest (est. weight a billion tons as a cone) more often? Where is all that "stuff" going? On Saturday, February 9, 2013, David Roberson wrote: This would be true if the pieces came down over a large area and at a moderate number per hour. I suspect that a large mass of individual pieces coming down close together would behave a lot like one big one. The energy contained within the large mass of individual meteorites would be about the same as that in one. Dave -----Original Message----- From: mixent <mix...@bigpond.com> To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Sat, Feb 9, 2013 10:51 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Near earth asteroid info In reply to de Bivort Lawrence's message of Thu, 7 Feb 2013 23:28:29 -0500: Hi, >Wouldn't blowing up an asteroid merely create a lot of smaller pieces raining down on earth, with only a few deflected into non-collision paths. If the pieces are small enough, they will burn up in the atmosphere harmlessly. [snip] Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
