Fun for me on this Father’s Day where I was told to do whatever I wanted this afternoon. I did the right thing and began using the Impact Calculator from Edward Gomez and Jon Yardley to create simulated asteroid impacts and measure the resulting destruction. The image above is the crater created by an asteroid made of iron and measuring 15,000 meters wide which impacted at 27 degrees in excess of 60km/second. That crater is over 1700 meters deep (that is the Empire State Building sitting in the center to provide some perspective).
I came across the Impact Calculator at OrbitingFrog.
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