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Zerush ( Zerush@lemmy.ml )  to Science@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Potentially dangerous 366-meter asteroid approaches Earth

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Potentially dangerous 366-meter asteroid approaches Earth

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Zerush ( Zerush@lemmy.ml )  to Science@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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  • interdimensionalmeme ( interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ) 
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    Please hit here please please please

  • Zerush ( Zerush@lemmy.ml ) OP
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    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 ( huquad@lemmy.ml ) 
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      That’s a crazy amount of damage. Sign me up!

  • 🦄🦄🦄 ( Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org ) 
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    Don’t give me hope again.

  • golden_zealot ( golden_zealot@lemmy.ml ) 
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    According to NASA, the length of the celestial object is 366 meters. The distance from 387746 (2003 MH4) to the planet Earth will be 6,676,580 km.

    If an asteroid approaches the Earth at a distance closer than 7.5 million kilometers and its size exceeds 150 meters, NASA considers it a “potentially hazardous object.”

    So there is basically no chance of impact as I understand it unless some suuuuuuuuper unexpected shit happens I guess.

    • IttihadChe ( IttihadChe@lemmy.ml ) 
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      Did they account for this persons giant magnet pulling it closer?

      • golden_zealot ( golden_zealot@lemmy.ml ) 
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        Yes as I’m afraid that was one of the expected parts.

    • nfreak ( nfreak@lemmy.ml ) 
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      Damn maybe next time

    • LemmyFeed ( LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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      It’s potentially hazardous, that sounds pretty hazardous to me, which is basically hazardous, which means it’s surely hazardous, and surely means a sure thing. So buckle up!

  • Spykee ( spykee@lemm.ee ) 
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    Don’t look up!

    • Zerush ( Zerush@lemmy.ml ) OP
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      Less if you look up and see the rock quiet in the sky, turning bigger and bigger.

  • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍 ( sxan@midwest.social ) 
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    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

  • SplashJackson ( SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ) 
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    Nice. I hope no countries misread it as an attack on their sovereignty by their neighbours and use it as cassus belli to invade

    • eldavi ( eldavi@lemmy.ml ) 
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      how could anyone interpret a meteor impact as cause for war?

      • ferric_carcinization ( ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml ) 
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        Someone can surely figure something out with a bit of imagination.

  • geneva_convenience ( geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml ) 
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    366 meters doesn’t sound nice and round.

    How about 3 football fields?

    • BurningRiver ( BurningRiver@beehaw.org ) 
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      3 football pitches*. If it were in yards, then it would be fields.

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    How big is that in baby giraffes?

  • humanspiral ( humanspiral@lemmy.ca ) Banned
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    Removed by mod

    • Zerush ( Zerush@lemmy.ml ) OP
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      Not after the collision

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