▲ | tvickery 2 days ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
I know it’s incredibly, vanishingly unlikely but what would happen if an object with these characteristics smacked into Earth? | |||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | ra 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
With this much mass and velocity - it would smash the planet, rupturing the entire crust at the very least. No matter how infinitesimally small the probability - the universe is infinite, and so it probably will happen. i3 is much bigger than the Chicxulub asteroid that ended the Cretaceous period (and extinct all non-avian dinosaurs). | |||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | _joel 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The end, unless you're a small proto-mammal ;). An object (depending on consistency) of about 100m is enough to wipe out a city and do enough damage to the environment. Something of 8-20km is in the same category as what wiped out the dinosaurs (10-15km). | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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▲ | MaxikCZ 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
8-22km at interstellar speeds? Probably total extinction level. |