Dodged a Planetary Bullet

Shit. We probably won't ever know when we are going to die if no one ever tells us something like this is going to happen. Lol

Only the stoners will know

 

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/

This site lets you play around with the variables involved in a meteorite collision. Obviously it's just a simulation based on limited human knowledge of these types of events, but it's still cool to see what might have happened if it had hit.

Here are the variables I used:
Distance from Impact: 20 miles
Projectile Diameter: 47 m (went with the upper limit of the object as described in the article)
Projectile Density: 3000 kg/m3 (assumed it was dense rock, I have no idea though)
Impact Velocity: 17.00 km/s (site says this is typical)
Impact Angle: 45 degrees
Target Type: Sedimentary Rock

Apparently it would have broken up in the atmosphere and not have had much of an impact at all.

 

Since I started smoking I get those bad feelings too which range in how bad it feels. All I know is when I get that really really bad feeling, I'm going to smoke all the weed and take all the drugs I have quick so at least I can be amazed by how beautiful the big fireball in the sky is before it burns me to ash.

 

ive planned for the worst case scenario, that is an earth sized amount of Osmium hits earth. Osmium is very dense, here are the expected results lol:

yes that's right, 152,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 mega tons of tnt lolol

 

That little pepple that zoomed past us recently, is nothing. The reason it went unnoticed until really close, was because it was so small. Some 20-40 meters long if I remember correctly.

Though ofcourse, if it had hit a population-center it would do a great deal of damage. But more likely, had it hit earth, chances are it would hit either water or some desolate place on land. Contrary to popular belief, most of the earth is uninhabitated.

To be really catastrophic, would require a meteorite much, much larger than this little pepple. Orders of magnitude bigger. And most of those rocks we do have pretty good knowledge of. And should one come from out of "nowhere", we'd discover it much sooner than this. For the simple reason that bigger equals easier to spot.