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Because I was curious and had no idea about the relative size of meteors that hit the moon, the one that hit the moon in 2013 and was captured by Spanish astron
by mikeyouse 2y ago
Because I was curious and had no idea about the relative size of meteors that hit the moon, the one that hit the moon in 2013 and was captured by Spanish astronomers was traveling at 65k KPH and weighed about 400kg. That had an impact energy of 15 tons of TNT (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=perqv4qByaI&t=1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=perqv4qByaI&t=1s)
Safe to say, an 8 megaton impact from one that weighs 220,000,000kg would be a bit more substantial! Apparently that would be roughly the size of the Meteor Crater in Arizona (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater).
- dreamcompiler 2y agoYes. Similar to hundreds of other craters on the Moon.
- nayuki 2y ago> traveling at 65k KPH You could say 65 MPH (megametres per hour) ;-). Or more formally: 65 Mm/h or 18 km/s.