Jerry Jeffrey

Jerry Jeffrey

Impactors and Their Possible Explosive Effects on the Earth: Part 1

This article is the first in a series of three articles addressing some of the facts and suppositions surrounding Earth impactors and their effects. This article will address the basic scientific facts about the speed and direction (i.e., the velocity) of large objects colliding at high speed with the Earth. The second article will address the composition of impactors and the third article will describe a couple of hypothetical examples. Given time and the availability of space in our newsletter over the months following the publication of these articles I plan to periodically summarize the use of impactors as implements of death and destruction by accident or design in the cinematic and written literature.