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> So 260m would be absolutely devastating, but wouldn't end civilization as we know it It really depends. A ~100 m asteroid is roughly as energetic as some of
by delta_p_delta_x 2y ago
> So 260m would be absolutely devastating, but wouldn't end civilization as we know it
It really depends. A ~100 m asteroid is roughly as energetic as some of the largest nuclear weapons ever detonated (~10¹ to 10² megatons).
As an example... It'd destroy London, and maybe some of its satellite cities like Luton, Oxford, and Cambridge, but the effects would be significantly diminished by the time the fireball radiation and the blast got to Nottingham.