... if 4 km big object will hit the ocean.
Size: 4 km
Density: 8000kg/m^3 (iron)
Impact velocity: 14km/s
Water of depth: 5000 meters
Distance from land: 10 km, 50 km, 100km, 500km
Is it still meteorite?
2006-07-04 10:12:04 · 7 answers · asked by Xer X 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
See:
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/
You can calculate the effects yourself at this site.
2006-07-04 10:27:58 · answer #1 · answered by nick s 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, the size of 4km and the density of 8000/km^3 and hits the ocean, it might cause gigantic waves through out the ocean and it might hit the shorelines that are a few kilometers away. But there are still even worse things to happen(which has a small speck of a good thing here), when it hits the ocean floor, it might cause a crack on the ocean floor and let lava out also the impact of the object might destroy underwater creatures. The small speck of a good thing is, if there are enough lava unleashed out of the ocean floor, it might forn an island where humans can live in!
2006-07-04 17:34:41 · answer #2 · answered by TheWisemanofourschool 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This sounds like a missile, almost. What shape is this object with so much iron in it. Oh, wait, km.
Wait, wait, wait.
You just watched deep impact, didn't you?
A lot of that is factual, but much of it is a little far fetched. You have to consider that this is Hollywood talking.
I have to wonder if all that iron wouldn't be immediately sucked to the core, causing a high pressure expulsion of lava or even worse, a force strong enough to explode this planet, like dropping a water baloon on the cement. But that's just my head talking.
2006-07-04 17:22:58 · answer #3 · answered by shehawke 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If anything that big and heavy moving that fast hits the earth, we're pretty much all screwed. A lot of the population of the world would die instantly or within hours. Most of the rest would die from resulting climate change. If humanity is lucky, a few would survive to repopulate the earth, but the earth's history and ecology would be forever changed.
2006-07-04 17:29:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even with all of Hollywood's hype, the outcome will not be good. It will affect the earth in some form or another I would suppose. Whether it be the weather or the atmosphere, tsunami or something.
2006-07-04 17:40:53 · answer #5 · answered by missingmax1968 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any meteor that hits the Earth is a meteorite. Ja wohl !
If it doesn't make it to the surface then it's called a...
2006-07-04 17:19:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There probably won't be any signifant changes. You forgot to add the angle of the asteroid. There will be a bigger crater the more vertical the angle is.
2006-07-05 03:12:40 · answer #7 · answered by Eric X 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋