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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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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I don’t think the calculator is including the sonic boom from the passage, just the explosion.

However, an article in Nature states the blast damage was from the explosion, not the sonic boom:

http://www.nature.com/news/russian-meteor-largest-in-a-century-1.12438

On further thought, I suspect that the overpressure was much higher than the calculator because the (simple) calculator may simply have the air blast effects be spherical, when in reality they were focused along the path.

The paper explaining the calculator is quite technical and can be found here:

http://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEffects/effects.pdf


54 posted on 02/16/2013 2:15:54 PM PST by Strategerist
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