[Rockhounds] New Paper About Asteroid Impact Hazards for Humans

[Mike Flannigan]

That is very interesting work.  Thanks for sharing.
It should be pointed out that they limited their analysis
to 7 factors: wind blast, overpressure shock, thermal radiation,
cratering, seismic shaking, ejecta deposition, and tsunami.
It is interesting that the word "climate" is not in the paper at all.

I think we all know that WHEN the big one hits the last 95% of
humanity that perishes will not care a bit about any of these
factors that killed off the first ~400 million people (actually
275 million per graph 2a).


Mike


On 7/3/2017 3:00 PM, rockhounds-request at rockhounds.drizzle.com wrote:
> If you die via asteroid, this is how it will happen
> It?s incredibly unlikely. But what if?
> by Brian Resnick July 3, 2017
> https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/7/3/15903154/asteroid-death-one-chart
>
> The paper is;
>
> Rumpf, C. M., H. G. Lewis, and P. M. Atkinson
> (2017), Asteroid impact effects and their
> immediate hazards for human populations,
> Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 3433?3440,
> doi:10.1002/2017GL073191.
> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017GL073191/full
>
> PDF file at:https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.07592.pdf
>
> Yours,
>
> Paul H.