Asteroid Impact Tsunami: A Probabilistic
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Steven N. Ward; Erik Asphaug
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Article
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2000
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We investigate the generation, propagation, and probabilistic hazard of tsunami spawned by oceanic asteroid impacts. The process first links the depth and diameter of parabolic impact cavities to asteroid density, radius, and impact velocity by means of elementary energy arguments and crater scaling