I was watching that joke of a movie, Armageddon (nice premise, but they ignored physics quite a bit - they should not have been able to achieve that level of gravity on Mir, the Cosmnonaut should have been on his back when returning to Earth after so long on a 0-G space station, I doubt the explosion would have looked like the Death Star blowing up (the redigitized version), and etc.) and was thinking of a game setting where an asteroid hit but life survived. Then I was thinking... the problem with an asteroid hitting is the high percentage chance of it hitting water... and all the dust thrown into the atmosphere by it. But what if the asteroid hit a small (in the total scheme of things) but high target... the Himilaya Mountains (more specifically, around Mt. Everest). The top of those mountains are in the upper atmosphere already. What would be the effects of the dust and the impact itself? Would the devestation be as bad? Worse? Or would most of the dust be tossed into outer space itself (possibly, in a couple million years, making a ring around Earth)? Any clues? Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------- GMAST Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gmast/
