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@Zerush@lemmy.ml to Science@lemmy.ml • 21 days ago

Potentially dangerous 366-meter asteroid approaches Earth

www.europesays.com

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Potentially dangerous 366-meter asteroid approaches Earth

www.europesays.com

@Zerush@lemmy.ml to Science@lemmy.ml • 21 days ago
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Impact simulator

https://neal.fun/asteroid-launcher/

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  • @interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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    23•21 days ago

    Please hit here please please please

  • @Zerush@lemmy.mlOP
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    17•21 days ago

    Damage in the impact

    An estimated 189 people would be vaporized in the crater

    The crater is 542 m deep

    Your asteroid impacted the ground at 17 km/s

    The impact is equivalent to 5 Gigatons of TNT

    More energy was released than a hurricane releases in a day

    An impact this size happens on average every 88,000 years

    An estimated 355,850 people would die from the fireball

    An estimated 631,250 people would receive 3rd degree burns

    An estimated 1,076,394 people would receive 2nd degree burns

    Trees would catch on fire within 94 km of the impact

    An estimated 4,588 people would die from the shock wave

    Anyone within 33 km would likely receive lung damage

    Anyone within 43 km would likely have ruptured eardrums

    Buildings within 76 km would collapse

    Homes within 101 km would collapse

    An estimated 465,284 people would die from the wind blast

    Wind within 23 km would be faster than storms on Jupiter

    Homes within 37 km would be completely leveled

    Within 66 km it would feel like being inside an EF5 tornado

    Nearly all trees within 109 km would be knocked down

    An estimated 1,823 people would die from the earthquake.

    The earthquake would be felt 192 km away

    • @huquad@lemmy.ml
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      1•19 days ago

      That’s a crazy amount of damage. Sign me up!

  • 🦄🦄🦄
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    13•21 days ago

    Don’t give me hope again.

  • shath [comrade/them]
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    8•21 days ago

    me with my giant magnet

  • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍
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    8•21 days ago

    Ooo ooo ooo!

    I’ve got giant meteor! Along with fascist dictator, budding violent revolution (8647), economic collapse, and developing global war (WWIII), that gives me…

    BINGO

    • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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      9•21 days ago

      Comrade Comey will you lead the vanguard

  • Spykee
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    6•21 days ago

    Don’t look up!

    • @Zerush@lemmy.mlOP
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      4•21 days ago

      Less if you look up and see the rock quiet in the sky, turning bigger and bigger.

      • mendiCAN [none/use name]
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        7•21 days ago

  • @devfuuu@lemmy.world
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    4•21 days ago

    It’s finally time.

  • @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    4•21 days ago

  • @geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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    3•21 days ago

    366 meters doesn’t sound nice and round.

    How about 3 football fields?

    • @BurningRiver@beehaw.org
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      2•21 days ago

      3 football pitches*. If it were in yards, then it would be fields.

    • @NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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      2•21 days ago

      I’d prefer my measurements in giraffes

  • @hbar@lemmy.ml
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    2•21 days ago

    How big is that in baby giraffes?

  • @humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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    1•21 days ago

    Will this asteroid ever return to near earth collision?

    • @Zerush@lemmy.mlOP
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      6•21 days ago

      Not after the collision

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