To: jonno
"Moving at 36K miles per hour. That could have made a mess had it struck..."An asteroid of that size (about 50 ft. diameter) and velocity (36k mph) is equivalent to about 500 kilotons of TNT. The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima as a comparison was about 15 kilotons of TNT. The average interval between impacts of this size somewhere on Earth is 58.5 years.
Impact Earth! Very cool simulator
11 posted on
01/11/2017 10:55:49 AM PST by
Godebert
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To: Godebert
16 posted on
01/11/2017 11:12:43 AM PST by
jonno
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To: Godebert
Similar to the Tanguska impact in 1908?
17 posted on
01/11/2017 11:14:19 AM PST by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
To: Godebert
Thanks for the link - very cool indeed.
24 posted on
01/11/2017 3:05:54 PM PST by
P.O.E.
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