Enormous iceberg collision
p2pnet.net OT News:- An event so large that the best seat in the house is in space will almost certainly occur on Saturday.
Then, a 100-mile-long iceberg will collide with a floating glacier near the McMurdo Research Station in Antarctica.
“It’s a clash of the titans, a radical and uncommon event,” says Robert Bindshadler, a researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
The gigantic B-15A iceberg is moving steadily towards the Drygalski Ice Tongue, images from NASA satellites show, and NASA scientists predict a collision no later than January 15, 2005.
When the iceberg and the ice tongue meet, the edges could crumple and ice could pile or drift into the Ross Sea. But if the B-15A iceberg picks up enough speed before the two collide, the results could be more spectacular, says NASA, and the ice tongue could even break off.
The B-15A iceberg is a 3,000-square-kilometer (1,200-square-mile) behemoth that’s the largest fragment of a much bigger ‘berg that broke away from the Ross Ice Shelf in March 2000.
And if the collision actually happens, it could be witnessed again and again, says NASA, adding:
“The tides that drive the iceberg’s motion tend to push it in circles. ‘If B-15A bangs the ice tongue once, it could bang it again,’ says Bindshadler. With multiple daily views of the Ross Sea, NASA satellites will be there to watch the show.”
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January 13th, 2005 at 5:38 pm
where is this collision in proximity to chile, patagonia, south africa?
JAJ
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January 14th, 2005 at 4:25 pm
Will a collision between Berg and Glacier cause any waves, Tidal waves or Tsunamis?
Will any waves be monitored closer than space?
Will peoples of low lying lands in direct ALIGNEMENT be warned at the slightest risk of surface, or subsurface disturbance.?
Including those with low income populations???
Will Insurance Companies, Underwriters – ensure that if any warning is even possibly needed – then it will to be issued, – because, as we have recently seen, – barely a RIPPLE in the greater ocean can cost Lives, livelihoods for generations to come.
What precautions should be taken – initally in the closest areas of Direct Alignment.
If anything occurs in those locations, then the more distant locations should equally have Tidal Warnings.
In Australia after the Tsunami we had tidal surges washing dozens of people into the ocean on the West Coast, and in the Eastern States there were drownings due to Unexpected – tidal surges.
Like the air we breathe, the One body of Water joins us all.
The ripples in a big bath, – get everywhere eventually.
RANSOM
January 14th, 2005 at 11:21 pm
I’ll stop breathing then. Hope this helps.
January 18th, 2005 at 7:10 pm
HAS IT HAPPENED YET? WHAT WERE THE EFFECTS? IT IS THE 18th and it should have happened already.
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