Blow up the Earth! Fun AND Educational!

Right here, at IMPACT you can create your very own asteroid or comet, and affect the variables, such as density, composition, size, velocity, angle of attack, yadda yadda yadda...

Gives you a very professional read-out on crater size, fallout, destruction galore! And more!

Seriously, though... this site is pretty interesting, and helps people try to figure out where we would stand (or fall) in an asteroid of a certian size hits... say... 1500 miles from home... or whatever.

Very cool tool... will use it for some story ideas myself, now that I can have reliable information.

I think I overdid it

Final Crater Diameter: 80349463.45 km = 49897016.80 miles


7.07 x 1044 Joules = 1.69 x 1029 MegaTons TNT

BIG boom
Cool find though thanks!

[Edited on 26-4-2004 by NetStorm]

Talk about overkill...

The first I used was a comet, 200 meters, icy core... BUT I had it impact at... I think... 38000 fps, at an angle of 35 degrees... I was off the Ricter Scale, registered at 12.9. Oddly enough, the report says comets with those stats do hit, but I don't remember how often.

What would be cool to do, though, is backtrack; take current craters and see what made them. Will have to try that.

I did it but I got pretty bored with looking at text. If I knew how to code, I would write a Java applet that would animate the sequence. Unfortunately, with the test I did, I was inside the part of the crater that got ejected on impact ... a free trip into space! No $10 mil Space Shuttle ride for me!

i got ejected into space when i did it too lol
it said strikes like these hapen every 5.1 x 10^8 years
thats a cool link

Great find Soothsayer.

Very enjoyable I certainly recommend other having a go.

My 1 mile diametre astroid which I place hitting the USA would leave a crater 27 miles across.

I would only experienced dust falling in the UK and hear a boom of a volumn similar to heavy traffic.

Edit:I changed my position and put myself on the coast of the US and:

Multistory wall-bearing buildings will collapse.

Wood frame buildings will almost completely collapse.

Glass windows will shatter.

Up to 90 percent of trees blown down; remainder stripped of branches and leaves.




[Edited on 1-5-2004 by John bull 1]

[Edited on 1-5-2004 by John bull 1]

uh....i really over-did it. it would destroy like the entire solar system.......

.62 x 10^111 Joules = 6.25 x 1095 MegaTons TNT
The average interval between impacts of this size somewhere on Earth is 6.4 x 10^75years

Transient Crater Diameter: 17121968688211996595716096.00 km = 10632742555379650225242112.00 miles
Final Crater Diameter: 32842185054737364298686791680.00 km = 20394996918991904021132869632.00 miles

that means it hits once every 64,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. wouldnt the universe be gone by then??

i hope im never alive when that one hits.

Edit:if anyone can tell me how many years that is (ex. billion, trillion, etc...) will get 10 dollars from me.

[Edited on 2-5-2004 by masterofpuppets]

The answer is here. Can I have 5 dollars?

www.sciforums.com...

Originally posted by masterofpuppets
Edit:if anyone can tell me how many years that is (ex. billion, trillion, etc...) will get 10 dollars from me.

[Edited on 2-5-2004 by masterofpuppets]

Number of zeros
66 - 120--undecillion - vigintillion

there are 75 sets of zeros
www.jimloy.com...

If you believe this to be correct then

Please send 10.00 dollars to

RoJo
PO BOX 3.141592654
Tampa Fl

Gracias



[Edited on 2-5-2004 by NetStorm]

lol, damn someone actually got it. now ive got to get 10 dollars from somewhere....btw i didnt even think they would make numbers that go that high!

Originally posted by masterofpuppets
lol, damn someone actually got it. now ive got to get 10 dollars from somewhere....btw i didnt even think they would make numbers that go that high!

Just donate it to ATS

Originally posted by masterofpuppets
uh....i really over-did it........

.62 x 10^111 Joules = 6.25 x 1095 MegaTons TNT
The average interval between impacts of this size somewhere on Earth is 6.4 x 10^75years

Transient Crater Diameter: 17121968688211996595716096.00 km = 10632742555379650225242112.00 miles
Final Crater Diameter: 32842185054737364298686791680.00 km = 20394996918991904021132869632.00 miles

And I thought I was doing over kill...

But yeah, I'd love to find a program that has it animated... I did find one that asked you for impact location and your location, using Lat and Long... just have to find it again...

Originally posted by NetStorm

Originally posted by masterofpuppets
Edit:if anyone can tell me how many years that is (ex. billion, trillion, etc...) will get 10 dollars from me.

[Edited on 2-5-2004 by masterofpuppets]

Number of zeros
66 - 120--undecillion - vigintillion

there are 75 sets of zeros
www.jimloy.com...

If you believe this to be correct

then

Please send 10.00 dollars to

RoJo
PO BOX 3.141592654
Tampa Fl

Gracias

[Edited on 2-5-2004 by NetStorm]

lol your po box is pi?

Originally posted by soothsayer
But yeah, I'd love to find a program that has it animated... I did find one that asked you for impact location and your location, using Lat and Long... just have to find it again...

This one is not quite the same but it has animated movies of impacts---they aren't that impressive though..give me a few minutes, I'll find more


sherpa.sandia.gov...


this one has good info also

www.lpl.arizona.edu...

And if you are interested in whats up there waiting to come down, then go here

cfa-www.harvard.edu...



[Edited on 4-5-2004 by NetStorm]