This is a really cool "asteroid impact" web-site (1 Viewer)

[David Robbins]

Most of you probably already know about it, but I thought I would share for those who haven't seen it.

You can create your own impacts by feeding in all the pertinent info. to find out what would happen if you were in the vicinity of the impact or further away. Check it out.

Impact: Earth!

 

[Sarcastic]

Might be the second best thing Purdue has ever produced.

 

[Sarcastic]

I think I have it figured out.

A 1000-m chunk of ice at an angle of 90 degrees with a velocity of 40 km/s will render most of metropolitan Atlanta a crater, yet only dust New Orleans and the MS Gulf Coast and send us a few aftershocks and a decent breeze. No global effects, and no radiation.

Let's do it

 

[justdave]

Where is the Nuke Earth website?

 

[Ted]

can you set it back a few hundred million years to see What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs?

 

[St. Widge]

Can this thing tell you what would happen if an asteroid impacted an infinite box?

 

[Sarcastic]

Can this thing tell you what would happen if an asteroid impacted an infinite box?

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[justdave]

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That is a finite box with the possibility of infinite impacts.