Online devastation calculator

[blobrana]

Hehe,
Those crazy scientists from the University of Arizona have developed a handy calculator that you can use to determine your fate in the event of an asteroid impact.

It calculates the blast, depth of ejecta, and the force of the air blast at a distance from ground zero. Now you can see if you'll be safe from the devastation of an asteroid strike, or if you'll need to hop in your car and drive... far.
calculator...



(tip, try a speed of 30,000 km/sec)

[that_punk_guy]

Your position was inside the transient crater and ejected upon impact

My bottom hurts! :-D

[Karlos]

Make your projectile dense, large and fast enough and you get a transient crater larger than the earth :-D

You'd think they'd cap the velocity - you can enter values > c ;-)

[bloodline]

Karlos wrote:
Make your projectile dense, large and fast enough and you get a transient crater larger than the earth :-D

You'd think they'd cap the velocity - you can enter values > c ;-)

hahahaha, call themselves scientists! Perhaps they are accounting for the possiblity of an asteroid impacting with the earth before it reached us...

[Karlos]

Aye, I managed to get a fireball so big it would be over your horizon even 20000km away. Or on the opposite side of the earth, to be a bit more precise :-D

[KennyR]

I went to the other side of the scale, standing 5 metres away from a 5cm rock hitting at 500 m/hour - and I got second degree burns? :crazy:

[blobrana]

:LOL:

     :lol:







[sry, mustn`t laugh at others misfortune]

Anyway, i`m trying to get a friction burn...

[bloodline]

blobrana wrote:

Anyway, i`m trying to get a friction burn...

I'm sure I can help there!!!

[blobrana]

 :lol:

[Karlos]

KennyR wrote:
I went to the other side of the scale, standing 5 metres away from a 5cm rock hitting at 500 m/hour - and I got second degree burns? :crazy:

Cool. I did try the micro end of the scale too, but I couldn't get anything so small to traverse the atmosphere. Maybe I had the velocity too high :-D

[sir_inferno]

now you just have to make a pda format  :-)

[asian1]

Hi
On Sept 27, 2003, in Orissa, India, 3 people were hospitalised because of meteors that fall from the sky.
20 peoples were injured. Search on google: +Meteor +Orissa

http://www.google.com

In USA, a car was destroyed by another meteor. Another meteor fall through the roof of a house, bounce around in the living room and destroy a TV set.

Meteors List

[blobrana]

Hum,
Nice link there...

And in  the news...
Near Earth Object Observation Program experts have told the Senate subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space, that they are on schedule to finding everything bigger than 1 kilometer (0.62 mile) in diameter that might approach the planet (that`s city killers).

"The survey officially started in 1998 and to date more than 700 objects of an estimated population of about 1,100 have been discovered, so the effort is now believed to be over 70 percent complete and well on the way to meeting its objective by 2008."

So things don`t looks so bleak...  :-)

[KennyR]

...and then suddenly a 999m rock destroys London. ;-)

[Karlos]

I wonder, just out of curiosity, if you had a material that would heat without shattering and ablate in a controlled fashion as it traversed the atmosphere, what sort of initial size/velocity a chunk of it would have to be to land as a sufficiently aerobraked harmless pebble...