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If Mt of asteroid impact roughly equates to a nuclear weapon, then this is pretty bad for a metropolitan area but not enough to put a big dent in humanity.
by jonstewart 2y ago
If Mt of asteroid impact roughly equates to a nuclear weapon, then this is pretty bad for a metropolitan area but not enough to put a big dent in humanity.
- chrsw 2y agoI think it if it's far enough out you only need to change it's trajectory only very slightly to reduce to the probably of impact to something much less
- ta1243 2y agoThere's a 3 in 4 chance an asteroid hitting the earth will hit water, and of the remaining change about 50/50 it hits a desert or ice sheet (Antarctica, Greenland).
- jonstewart 2y agoHitting an ice sheet might be worst case scenario for global impact.
- pfdietz 2y agoThe stripe where this object could hit is mostly at low latitude.
- wing-_-nuts 2y agoSorry could you expand / clarify this comment? What would make this more likely to hit near the tropics?
- adzm 2y agoThe risk corridor calculated here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2024_YR4_risk_corridor.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2024_YR4_risk_corridor.pn...
- wing-_-nuts 2y agoMan if it hit india that'd go from a bad day to catastrophic.
- vixen99 2y agoDepending on the amount, if landing on solid earth, the effect of dust ejected into the atmosphere might be critically significant in terms of energy dynamics and solar energy production.