Originally Posted by
Machinbird
Hi Henra,
Please check your scale. I see large components of the wreckage spanning 180-200 meters in the N-S direction. They are located both south and north of the centerline, part of the 'outliers.'
Hi Machinbird,
The 100m was referring to the main trail w/o the outliers.
That's what I meant with the -+-. The width of the outliers is wider but they are on a single axis vertical to the main trail. with very little drift spread along this orthogonal axis.
In case of N-S impact with some remaining forward velocity I would expect the 200m not only in one line but more or less over the full length of the trail.
I.e. something like IIIIII or maybe IIII+-- instead of ---I--
Why would only the mid- part drift differently due to currents ?
And even more mysterious : Why would the bits lost at the beginning of the sequence drift equally far to the bits at the end of the impact sequence, i.e. have similar flotation /drag characteristics and everything in between have a very wide spread of drift / flotation characteristics.