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What would be the result if something this large hit Earth?
by blunte 5y ago
What would be the result if something this large hit Earth?
- elboru 5y ago> Based on the images and video provided observers, the object’s diameter is estimated at 20 meters The Chelyabinsk meteor was 20m and it damaged 7,200 buildings, it collapsed a factory roof and shattered windows (I have no idea the composition of either of both meteors but at least this gives some perspective): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor
- seanw444 5y agoChelyabinsk was 20m? That's surprisingly little damage for something equivalent to a massive light seen on Jupiter.
- shkkmo 5y agoChelyabinsk's light was probably similarly visible on Jupiter. The size of the light probably indicates the area illuminated by the explosion rather than the size of the explosion itself.
- WJW 5y agoIt was about as big as the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor from 2013, so "extensive ground damage over an irregular elliptical area around a hundred kilometres wide, and a few tens of kilometres long". So you would have a bad day if it hit the specific part of the Earth where you were located but overall not much would happen.