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Matuchkin

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Velocity was approximately 12,000 mps upon impact. I watched the altimeter, and it reached 0, so the asteroid actually crashed into the Earth. It was a "large", which, in RSS terms, probably means "we're all screwed". First time that happened to me, so naturally I'd make a joke about it.

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17 hours ago, RainDreamer said:

Lol you should have mount a mission to deflect it. Where did it impact

To the north of the Scandinavian Peninsula. Guess there's gonna be a tsunami now- or something.

By the way, it would have been impossible to deflect. From that position, it took something like 6 seconds to reach an altitude of 0 ASL.

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Technically, you could have gotten its mass and velocity, and could have calculated it's kinetic energy.
 (Kinetic = 0.5m (v^2), where m is mass (in kilograms), and v is speed (in m/s))

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16 hours ago, Astrofox said:

Technically, you could have gotten its mass and velocity, and could have calculated it's kinetic energy.
 (Kinetic = 0.5m (v^2), where m is mass (in kilograms), and v is speed (in m/s))

There are two-three Asteroid Impact Calculators on the Web, complete with detonation altitude estimate (Chelyabinsk-style), crater size estimates, and change in length of Earth day, go crazy.

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