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: 1000.00 meters ( = 3280.00 feet )
- Projectile diameter: 657.00 km ( = 408.00 miles )
- Projectile Density: 3440 kg/m3
- Impact Velocity: 357.00 meters per second ( = 1170.00 feet per second )
- Impact Angle: 90 degrees
- Target Density: 2500 kg/m3
- Target Type: Sedimentary Rock
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Energy:
- Energy before atmospheric entry: 3.26 x 1025 Joules = 7.78 x 109 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:
179 km ( = 111 miles )
- Transient Crater Depth: 63.3 km ( = 39.3 miles )
- Final Crater Diameter:
353 km ( = 219 miles )
- Final Crater Depth: 1.73 km ( = 1.07 miles )
- The crater formed is a complex crater.
- At this impact velocity ( < 12 km/s), little shock melting of the target occurs.
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Ejecta:
- What does this mean?
- Your position was inside the transient crater and ejected upon impact
