Article: OCEAN-BOUND ASTEROID WOULD DEVASTATE EXPERT SAYS TIDAL WAVE COULD WIPE OUT COASTS ON BOTH SIDES OF ATLANTIC.(News/National/International)

Byline: Paul Recer Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- An asteroid three miles in diameter that splashed into the Atlantic would produce a tidal wave that would wipe out most of the upper East Coast, according to a new study.

Such a disaster is not far-fetched, insists astrophysicist Jack Hills. He heads a Los Alamos National Laboratory research team investigating the risks of tidal waves that could be caused by boulders from space.

Within a 100-year period, Hills said Wednesday, there is a 2 percent to 3 percent chance that an asteroid big enough to trigger coastal flooding will slam into the Pacific or Atlantic oceans.

In either place, an ...

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