JaXanim wrote:
motorollin wrote:
Is 50 feet big for an asteroid? Would that cause any damage if it hit Earth?
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moto
It's tiny, too small to reach the surface. Anything this small hitting the atmospere at 20-50,000 mph would evaporate as a meteoric fireball.
jaX
Hmmmm - 50 feet are about 16.6666 meters - there have been reports about smaller objects that reached the ground.
I can remember a report from some years ago, where an solid object smashed the luggage compartment of a car (in NY, IIRC).
The object had about the size of an tennis ball when they found it. IIRC, it was mentioned that the initial size was about one meter in diameter.
So I think the composition and speed of the object matter as well...
