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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

If this was an iron it would have hit, most probably. Based on NASA’s numbers for the diameter and weight, it would have been a slightly-denser than average stony meteorite.

However, entering the NASA parameters and the angle in this calculator (About 20 degrees) you don’t end up with nearly enough kilotons for the explosion, or enough overpressure to break glass.

http://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/cgi-bin/crater.cgi?dist=0&distanceUnits=1&diam=17&diameterUnits=1&pdens=3526&pdens_select=3000&vel=18&velocityUnits=1&theta=10&wdepth=&wdepthUnits=1&tdens=2500


36 posted on 02/16/2013 1:13:20 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: Strategerist

“These results come with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY”

Their results are consistent with NASA’s 15/300kt/20 degree/20000m/sec scenario, except the over pressure, which was demonstrably greater, about 5X greater.


53 posted on 02/16/2013 2:06:58 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (What word begins with "O" and ends in economic collapse?)
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