On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> The UniverseToday article confirms that the energy release is estimated at
> 2*10E10 MT. (20 billion MT).
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An interesting factoid:
This collision would be visible in the daylight sky:
(20e15ton_explosive/s)/(4*pi*(60e6km)^2)?W/m^2
([2E16 * ton_explosive] / second) / ([4 * pi] * [{6E7 * (kilo*meter)}^2]) ?
watt
/ (meter^2)
= 1849.7341 W/m^2
If this collision happened on the moon, it would be an extinction event on
Earth just from the fires it would set from radiant heat:
(20e15ton_explosive/s)/(4*pi*(.25e6mi)^2)?W/m^2
([2E16 * ton_explosive] / second) / ([4 * pi] * [{250000 * mile}^2]) ? watt
/ (meter^2)
= 4.1137134E7 W/m^2
