Please note: the results below are estimates based on current (limited) understanding of the impact process and come with large uncertainties; they should be used with caution, particularly in the case of peculiar input parameters. All values are given to three significant figures but this does not reflect the precision of the estimate. For more information about the uncertainty associated with our calculations and a full discussion of this program, please refer to this article
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Your Inputs:
- Distance from Impact: 100.00 km ( = 62.10 miles )
- Projectile diameter: 50.00 km ( = 31.10 miles )
- Projectile Density: 8000 kg/m3
- Impact Velocity: 83.00 km per second ( = 51.50 miles per second )
(Your chosen velocity is higher than the maximum for an object orbiting the sun)
- Impact Angle: 90 degrees
- Target Density: 2500 kg/m3
- Target Type: Sedimentary Rock
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Energy:
- Energy before atmospheric entry: 1.80 x 1027 Joules = 4.31 x 1011 MegaTons TNT
- The average interval between impacts of this size is longer than the Earth's age.
- Such impacts could only occur during the accumulation of the Earth, between 4.5 and 4 billion years ago.
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Major Global Changes:
- The Earth is not strongly disturbed by the impact and loses negligible mass.
- The impact does not make a noticeable change in the tilt of Earth's axis (< 5 hundreths of a degree).
- The impact does not shift the Earth's orbit noticeably.
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Crater Dimensions:
- What does this mean?
- Transient Crater Diameter:
700 km ( = 434 miles )
- Transient Crater Depth: 247 km ( = 154 miles )
- Final Crater Diameter:
1650 km ( = 1020 miles )
- Final Crater Depth: 2.75 km ( = 1.71 miles )
- The crater formed is a complex crater.
- The volume of the target melted or vaporized is 1.61e+07 km3 = 3.85e+06 miles3
- Roughly half the melt remains in the crater, where its average thickness is 41.8 km ( = 25.9 miles ).
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Ejecta:
- What does this mean?
- Your position was inside the transient crater and ejected upon impact
