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中文的
AMCM99问题-A 大碰撞
NASA(航空航天管理局)常常考虑这样一个问题:一颗较大的小行星与地球的碰撞将会产生怎样的后果。
作为这个问题的一部分,要求你们讨论这颗小行星该到地球南极所造成的后果,有人认为其后果将与该行星撞到地球其它区域的后果有很大的不同。
你们可以假设这颗小行星的直径大约为l000米,并且立接撞在南极点处。
你们应当给出这样一次碰撞的后果的估计,特别地,NASA希望得到由这次碰撞所造成的人员伤亡的地区及数量的估计,还希望得到关于对南半球的大洋区域的农作物生长的危害的估计,以及由于南极冰层大规模融化引起的沿海洪水的一个估计。
英文的
MCM1999
Problem A Deep Impact
For some time, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) has been considering the consequences of a large asteroid impact on the earth. As part of this effort, your team has been asked to consider the effects of such an impact were the asteroid to land in Antarctica. There are concerns that an impact there could have considerably different consequences than one striking elsewhere on the planet. You are to assume that an asteroid is on the order of 1000 m in diameter, and that it strikes the Antarctic continent directly at the South Pole. Your team has been asked to provide an assessment of the impact of such an asteroid. In particular, NASA would like an estimate of the amount and location of likely human casualties from this impact, an estimate of damage done to the food production regions in the oceans of the southern hemisphere, and an estimate of possible coastal flooding caused by large-scale melting of the Antarctic polar ice sheet.
我觉着得从短期和长期影响二方面入手,不知大家有什么看法? |