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Boothbay Me Unusual Tide Changes
Richard Casady wrote:
On Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:55:37 -0700, slide wrote: Wayne.B wrote: I would conjecture that something like a large meteorite hitting the water offshore could create a similar effect. The successive waves of high and low water would be the outward spreading rings from the impact, similar to that created by a stone thrown into the water. The outer approaches to Boothbay Harbor may have served to focus and intensify the waves in some way. Good thought. Large meteorites aren't detectable by any means known to modern man. Meteorites show on radar, and are visible, if even as large as a grain of sand. Just what makes the large ones harder to detect than tiny ones? A fifty foot,estimated, one grazed the atmosphere but missed the surface, and departed. Several photographs of the event have been published. It was visible in broad daylight. Had it struck the earth, the impact would have shown up on every seismograph on the ;planet. Note that they are only meteorites after they hit. Before, they are meteors, and will, if distant enough, be indetectable. Geeze. I was being SARCASTIC for god's sake. |
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