Huge iceberg to ram glacier

[lovuian]

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/redir.php?jid=12ec51110c790406&cat=c08dd24cec417021

The massive B-15A iceberg is about the size of Long Island, N.Y.
By Michael Schirber

Updated: 7:56 p.m. ET Jan. 14, 2005A 100-mile-long iceberg is steaming towards a floating glacier near the McMurdo Research Station in Antarctica. NASA scientists have been following the impending smash-up in satellite images and have predicted the collision will occur no later than Jan. 15.

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"It's a clash of the titans, a radical and uncommon event," said Robert Bindshadler, a researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

With an area of 1,200-square miles (3,000-square kilometers), the iceberg B-15A is about the size of Long Island, NY. If it stays on its present course, it will smack bumpers with the Drygalski Ice Tongue, which is a thick frozen chunk that juts out into the Ross Sea from a land-based glacier on the western Pacific coast of Antarctica.

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WHOAH!!!

[yinkaafrica]

1. That is one seriously big boy!

We'll have to watch this closely.

[indigobusiness]

2. Older thread here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=228x1960

Thanks for the update.

[Wilber_Stool]

3. Big pics

here:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16759