so if a meteror the size of an average house

[PHiuR]

this is the size of the rock when it HITS the ground.

how much damage will it do?

discuss.

 

[Sphexi]

Go look at south-east Russia. There's a big hole in the ground created by a similar meteor some hundreds/thousands of years ago (I can't remember when exactly).

 

[91TTZ]

Depends on how fast it's going and how hard the rock is. Is it an icy rock, a dirty rock, or is it a metallic rock?

 

[Mrvile]

It would probably make a hole in the ground I'd imagine.

 

[PHiuR]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Depends on how fast it's going and how hard the rock is. Is it an icy rock, a dirty rock, or is it a metallic rock?

umm...i'm not sure..avg speed?, any whatever rock that is most likely to enter our atmosphere.

 

[thelanx]

Probably equivalent to quite a few hydrogen bombs, without the radiation of course. Huge huge devastation though. You'd have a blast radius of like 200 miles or something. (I'm pulling all of these numbers out of my ass)

 

[Sphexi]

http://www.astrojet.org/earths_impact_craters.htm

I was off on the timeframe, the one I was thinking of was in 1908 and wasn't an actual strike, it just exploded 8km off the surface of the Earth, causing like 2500 square km of damage. The actual impact was like 30mil years ago, but did do a bit of damage, like 62 miles in diameter worth.

 

[Mo0o]

Would it be big enough to cause nuclear winter?

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Would it be big enough to cause nuclear winter?

Yes, because the radiation would be nasty.

 

[Sphexi]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Would it be big enough to cause nuclear winter?

Probably not. A meteor the size of a house would cause a lot of problems for that part of the world, very much like a large-scale volcanic eruption. But to cause a full nuclear winter or something else it'd take a meteor almost 4-5km in diameter, like the one that hit Chesapeake bay, or the one that hit up in Quebec.

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: Lonyo

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Would it be big enough to cause nuclear winter?

Yes, because the radiation would be nasty.

I thought nuclear winter had less to do with the radiation as much as the debris that will be launched into the atmosphere and thus blocking the sun.

 

[Hammerhead]

Originally posted by: PHiuR
this is the size of the rock when it HITS the ground.

how much damage will it do?

discuss.

If the news reported that it was made of crack, all the crackheads would congregate at its landing spot. Landing on crackheads woul soften its impact on the earth's surface...ergo...no damage.

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: Mo0o

Originally posted by: Lonyo

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Would it be big enough to cause nuclear winter?

Yes, because the radiation would be nasty.

I thought nuclear winter had less to do with the radiation as much as the debris that will be launched into the atmosphere and thus blocking the sun.

I was joking.
A house isn't very big.

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They say 10km would do it.

 

[cKGunslinger]

I've always wondered what would happen if an asteroid the size of Texas was coming right for earth. Maybe would could drill it or blow it up with a nuke or something?

 

[Kindjal]

Maybe we could dig a hole throught the Earth at the point of impact and let it pass straight through.

 

[NeoV]

house-sized rock would make a nice crater, but wouldn't really have any global implications

the "tunguska" event in 1908 was likely a comet, not an asteroid, that exploded in the atmoshphere and didn't actually hit the ground - however, if that event repeated itself today over a populated area, bad place to be for a while

A nuclear winter has nothing to do with radiation...

An object the size of Texas would likely be detected months in advance, but I don't know for sure that we have the technology to do much about it....I'd imagine there would be a series of missile/rocket launches at at, likely nuclear in nature.....

I think they would find a crack team of the best oil-rig drillers in the world, make 2 custom space shuttles, and send in the boys to land on the object, plant a bomb, and get the heck out of there.....