To: MtnClimber
Moving at 36K miles per hour.
That could have made a mess had it struck...
7 posted on
01/11/2017 10:34:14 AM PST by
jonno
(Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
To: jonno
Yep, if it hits earth we will lose a lot of dinosaurs.
9 posted on
01/11/2017 10:37:20 AM PST by
poinq
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
(CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
To: jonno
The amount of mess would depend upon whether it broke apart in the atmosphere or actually hit.
25 posted on
01/11/2017 3:22:47 PM PST by
SauronOfMordor
(Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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