Dealing with a fictional story...need to know how big a crater would be if the meteor was the size of a car. This would actually be desert land, also.
2007-01-10 14:54:25 · 4 answers · asked by cathy_cmr 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
An object that size would most likely break up in the atmosphere, or slow down to the point where it would not leave a significant crater. Take away atmospheric braking and you're looking at maybe a 30m/100ft crater.
There's a couple of links for you below for calculating effects. the first one considers a given object as it hits Earth's atmosphere, and will calculate air blast effects. the second one just calculates the size of the crater and the energy of the blast when an object hits the Earth. you have to figure how fast it might be going after coming through the atmosphere.
2007-01-10 17:01:29 · answer #1 · answered by injanier 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wouldd be huge and that sized meteor would cause some localized climate change also because of the size of the dust cloud generated. I'm not sure of the size of the meteor or meteors that are attributed to causing the extinction of the dinsours millions of years ago.
2007-01-10 15:47:05 · answer #2 · answered by Del C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think this meteor was about the size of a car: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
2007-01-10 15:05:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG! i mean the size of a car? thats a big meteor
2007-01-10 15:09:43 · answer #4 · answered by psychic_gurl_happy_to_do_reading 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋