News Release
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How we observe the differences:
Asteroids Verses
Comets
Thursday, May 17, 2001
Gaspra Asteroid is brownish color. |
Halley's Comet is blacker than coal |
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Asteroids are seen from reflected sun light. |
Comets are observed from light and x-rays produced by matter/antimatter annihilations. |
We can not see the asteroid |
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Meteor & Comet Fragment Impacts. |
| Barringer Meteor created a crater, 1.2 kilometers wide and 200 meters deep, in Arizona about 50,000 years ago. | On June 30, 1908, antimatter fragment explosion in Russian Siberia. The blast flattened 2,000 square kilometers of forest. | |||
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The impact of the 30 metric ton iron meteor was equivalent to a 20 Megaton explosion. |
The impact of the 1.4 kilogram antimatter fragment was equivalent to a 30 Megaton nuclear bomb. | |||
| There were no biological mutations. | The radiation caused biological mutations. |
