The lower-limit estimate of the mass of the Eltanin asteroid.

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Mar 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999ppmto..18...26s&link_type=abstract

Publ. Purple Mt. Obs., Vol. 18, No. 1, p. 26 - 31

Physics

Minor Planets: Masses, Earth: Impact Phenomena

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The Eltanin asteroid is one that collided with the Earth in the South Pacific Ocean, and it was the only known asteroid impacted into a deep ocean area. On the basis of the fallout distribution of the asteroid debris, the authors estimate that the asteroid mass was 2.3×1013g, which corresponds to a diameter of 0.23 km. The estimate is 10 times smaller than one estimated by Kyte et al., but it is close to the realistic situation of the Eltanin impact event, and it is a more reasonable lower-limit estimation on the mass and diameter of the Eltanin asteroid.

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