Are you good at calculating, what would the effects be for these [details inside]?
What would the effects be if a meteor the size of a Volkswagen Westfalia struck an area like LA, Orange County, or simply Disneyland? What would it do if it struck 5 miles off Kona Hawaii, or landed in Lake Tahoe? What would happen if it landed in the Australian Outback? How much damage would happen if it landed on Time Square? How much damage would be done if it struck in the middle of Micronesia? If you know comets and their density I am sure you have some method of calculating damage, or will you just wing it and guess?
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It depends on many things:
What is the comet made of?
What is its mass?
Does it strike in one piece or break into several or many pieces at atmospheric contact?
How fast is it approaching and at what angle?
What is the comet made of?
You tell me, how often have I been told I do not know of astrological or physics matters, choose the most common meteor that is not 50% ice, say one of something hard like nickel.
What is its mass?
The size is that a VW Westfalia would displace, and as said before somewhere around the density of nickel.
Does it strike in one piece or break into several or many pieces at atmospheric contact?
I was thinking of a strike with 76% or more of the thing intact, not several or many smaller pieces.
How fast is it approaching and at what angle?
You know better how fast meteors travel, as far as angle, 30 deg of vertical when it hits.
The answer is, of course, Jesus.
Jesus would happen.
@ragingloli I see a player but there is no movie. Do I need to install something to see this?
The trouble with a simulation is that it is entirely fictional. If you assume little green men, you get simulated little green men. All simulations of craters assume METEOR impacts. Very few craters on Earth show only meteor effects. Many or most could better be explained as lightning bolt strike points. The history of the solar system has had a lot more lightning bolts than meteors. Here are some analyses of various events based on electric effects instead of gravity: http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/00subjectx.htm That is a huge site.
@SmartAZ The simulation allows you to decide on the material, rock or ice, the impact angle, the velocity, the impactor mass, from small to very large, and the impact location, over water or land. They determine the kinetic energy of the meteor and use that to determine the blast zone, heat release, ground damage. There is a wroteup that included results like: fireball incinerates all trees within x km. Tree limbs broken off at radius of y km. etc. It is very well done.
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