From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Wed Jun 27 2001 - 09:57:41 MDT
From: Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@datamann.com> Wrote:
> You are forgetting repetition. How many times did the
> object fly by the earth and moon? We don't know.
It doesn't matter. Even if the Chixulub object had crashed directly onto the
Moon and thus transferred 100% of its momentum to the Moon the change
in its orbit would have been insignificant because the Moon is at least
10 billion times as massive as the Chixulub object.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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