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Michael Snyder<\/a> – August 4, 2020<\/p>\n We live at a time when giant space rocks are whizzing past our planet with alarming regularity.\u00a0 Sometimes we know in advance that they are coming, and sometimes we don\u2019t.\u00a0 In fact, on July 28th an asteroid the size of a car zipped past our planet \u201cat a range that rivals the orbits of some high-flying satellites\u201d<\/a>, but we had only spotted it for the very first time on July 26th.\u00a0 If we couldn\u2019t see that one until it was nearly upon us, could it be possible that there are much larger potential threats hurtling toward our planet that we currently know nothing about?<\/p>\n In 1998, a big Hollywood movie entitled \u201cDeep Impact\u201d imagined what would happen if a very large asteroid hit the Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 It is hard to believe that it has been more than 20 years since it first came out, because I can still remember it very vividly.\u00a0 In one of the most memorable scenes in the film, a massive tsunami that is hundreds of feet tall slams into the east coast of the United States causing immense death and destruction.<\/p>\n But that is just a movie.\u00a0 Could something similar actually happen in real life?<\/p>\n On Tuesday, a British news source<\/a>\u00a0reminded us that scientists have discovered that such a scenario\u00a0is actually a very real possibility<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n A computer simulation of an asteroid impact tsunami developed by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz (USCS), showed waves as high as 400 feet sweeping onto the Atlantic Coast of the US.<\/em><\/p>\n Steven Ward, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at UCSC, and Erik Asphaug, an associate professor of Earth sciences, reported their findings in the Geophysical Journal International.<\/em><\/p>\n Of course an asteroid could potentially hit anywhere on the planet, but in their research Ward and Asphaug specifically focused on the Atlantic Ocean, and what their computer simulation came up with was extremely disconcerting<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n For the simulation, the researchers chose an impact site consistent with the orientation of the Earth at the time of the predicted encounter \u2013\u00a0in the Atlantic Ocean about 360 miles from the US coast.<\/em><\/p>\n Dr Ward explained that the 60,000-megaton blast of the impact\u00a0could\u00a0vaporise the asteroid and blow a cavity in the ocean 11 miles across and all the way down to the seafloor, which is about three miles deep at that point.<\/em><\/p>\n Such an impact would send\u00a0a series of giant waves in all directions, including toward the east coast of the United States.<\/p>\n http:\/\/endoftheamericandream.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Michael Snyder – August 4, 2020 We live at a time when giant space rocks are whizzing past our planet with alarming regularity.\u00a0 Sometimes we know in advance that they are coming, and sometimes we don\u2019t.\u00a0 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