Monitoring the comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: Possible ambiguities due to meteorite impacts
Author(s) -
Chyba Christopher F.,
van der Vink Gregory E.,
Hennet Christel B.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/97gl03586
Subject(s) - hypervelocity , treaty , meteorite , environmental science , range (aeronautics) , geology , political science , earth science , astrobiology , law , engineering , physics , aerospace engineering , astronomy
For seismic magnitudes in the range of monitoring interest for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, hypervelocity meteorite impacts will be detected about once every decade. Such detections could cause concern if they were difficult to distinguish from explosions and were associated with potential terrorist activity or treaty violations.