And almost nobody noticed.
Find out more about the asteroid hazard and how you can help at the B612 Foundation. | 173 Kiloton Explosion Over Bering Sea Was Asteroid Breaking Up | Scott Manley | Published on Mar 19, 2019
Posted on 03/19/2019 9:51:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Almost nobody noticed this, but back in December a chunk of space rock slammed into the Earth's atmosphere at 32km/sec over the Bering sea. The aerodynamic forces tore it apart and it released energy equivalent to a 170 kiloton weapon.
And almost nobody noticed.
Find out more about the asteroid hazard and how you can help at the B612 Foundation. | 173 Kiloton Explosion Over Bering Sea Was Asteroid Breaking Up | Scott Manley | Published on Mar 19, 2019
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They've got somewhat similar capability, and knew in short order that there had been no US launch.
Your view, if you would — the Arizona crater is 1200 meters across, if a mile-wide rock hit, would the crater be approximately 33^2 in area compared with the Barringer Crater?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3735815/posts?page=32#32
Oops, silly me, from the linked page in #30:
Impact:Earth! Is an application developed by Purdue University which approximates the resulting crater and after effects of an impact based on different selections of mass, velocity, impact angle, etc. Using the application, work with your team to produce a crater whose dimensions closely match those of the Barringer Crater. (Hint - You can reduce the number of variables by looking at what you know about the impact site and the impacting object.)
I don’t think it scales linearly. It would certainly be big;)
Heh, I see what you mean, 35K larger mass... I'll try that Impact Earth tool later.
This explosion was about ten times that of the nuclear explosion at Hiroshima.
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