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**pharmablogger** · 12-11-2007, 12:14 AM

Sure they aren´t like A-bombs, but i´ve read that they do release a pretty fair ammount of radiation on impact.

You've perhaps misread the term "radiation" in the context is was used in - for example, radiation is often applied to electromagnetic waves. Although asteroids certainly contain radioactive elements, they don't carry anything near the quantity or type necessary to initiate a mass burst of nuclear radiation upon impact. The heat from the collision might cause some fusion to take place but, again, it wouldn't cause serious amounts of radiation.

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pharmablogger Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 453 Senior Member	Sure they aren´t like A-bombs, but i´ve read that they do release a pretty fair ammount of radiation on impact. You've perhaps misread the term "radiation" in the context is was used in - for example, radiation is often applied to electromagnetic waves. Although asteroids certainly contain radioactive elements, they don't carry anything near the quantity or type necessary to initiate a mass burst of nuclear radiation upon impact. The heat from the collision might cause some fusion to take place but, again, it wouldn't cause serious amounts of radiation.
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