I was contemplating running a White Wolf Armageddon game - a literal Armageddon. In which the Wyrm won. An Asteroid broke the Wyrm free and smashed into the Earth wiping out much of the life on the European/American side. What I'm wondering is... if a very large meteor/small asteroid/comet struck the earth, what would the results be over the next few days, weeks, months and then years? How would an island such as Hawaii (which was on the other side of the globe) fare? Also, is it possible for an asteroid to "skip" off of the Earth? to enter the atmosphere at an angle and just glance off the Earth? I know that when the big ones hit, the top is still out of the atmosphere when the base strikes. But could one just "bounce" off the Earth (still doing lots of damage, no doubt)? I'm thinking partly in terms of the rather silly TV movie Ice (in which because of massive sunspot activity, the Earth cooled in just a few days and started freezing over... Guam would remain about temperate. Of course the problem with that is... aren't sunspots *hotter* than the surface of the sun? Wouldn't massive sunspots not result in an increase in IR light (ie, heat)? Ah, details... *grin*) and wondering what type of "ice age" might result from an asteroid strike... and if the island kingdoms might increase in land mass as a result and so forth. Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------- GMAST Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gmast/
