When I was a kid I thought that any asteroid hitting Earth was bad. Now I gotta ask “where is it going to impact” first.
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Submitted 3 weeks ago by Zuriz@sh.itjust.works to science_memes@mander.xyz
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yesman@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
funkajunk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hopefully my house
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Asteroid impacts are a bit disturbingly common. It was only 8 years ago that one about twice as powerful as the nukes used on Japan hit earth. Smaller but still over a kiloton have hit in the last two years.
dorumon@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
A meteorite flashed into my backyard in Ohio. It was pretty cool?
Denalduh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That was just last week right? I have a buddy in Cleveland who heard the sound of it breaking the speed barrier around 9am.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
The real cover up is that they are saying meteors are hitting the moon and making craters when in fact, because the world’s natural cheese supply is dwindling, they are scooping giant chunks of moon cheese out and bringing it back to earth.
Lauchmelder@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Don’t be ridiculous. Why wouldn’t they just take it from the side of the moon that is facing away from us…cmon guys
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
They already mined all the cheese from that side.
Chais@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
As you may have noticed, it’s not 2032, so NASA was right.
MNByChoice@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Sneaky plan by “Big Moon Globes and Images”. All of the old globes, posters, and shirts have to be replaced, as we cannot learn with in-accurate images of the Moon. Three Wolves cannot howl at old images of the Moon!
grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Motherfucker my globe doesn’t even have South Sudan on it and you expect me to have up-to-date males of the moon?!
PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Just draw it in
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Big moon trying to get more crater impacts so they can sell you on more big craters.
espentan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What if the person telling them is busy doing something else?!
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Don’t worry! Asteroids cannot hit the same place twice!
Or something…
apftwb@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Seems like a great place for solar panels
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
The issue with solar for stuff on the moon is that it’s night is very long compared to earth, so anything you power with it needs to be able to shut down (and also get very cold without powered heaters) without harm over that time, or have a comparatively large amount of energy storage. Unless you’re at one of a handful of spots at the poles where the sun almost never fully sets.
Brummbaer@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Just put it on the light side if the moon - problem solved.
wewbull@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
You’re right. Better use some wind turbines too.
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
That’s fine, just give the moon a solar panel belt around it’s equator.
“It’s noon somewhere”
jankforlife@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
NOT THE MOON
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
225m for a hit where there’s no atmosphere to slow it down. I wonder if something that would cause a that size of crater on the moon would even make it to the Earth’s surface, or if it would burn up before it hit.
westo232@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It depends on the material.
If the same asteroid that created the 225m wide crater on moon hit earth instead it would burn up in earth atmosphere if it was rocky in nature (~3.6m wide, 73 tons).
If the crater was made by a mostly iron asteroid, it would create a 12.5m crater on earth (~2.3m wide, 51 tons).
The reason for this is that rocky asteroids shatter thus have bigger surface area to burn up.
Iron asteroids stay solid and survive the atmosphere much easily.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Just two weeks ago we had a meteor of that estimated size range in my home region (western Germany).
The moving fireball and bright disintigration flashes were visible in a > 100km radius even though it was not completely dark yet.
Areas directly underneath also reported hearing a loud boom.
One of the fraqments caused a soccerball-sized hole in a roof and was recovered from the bedroom underneath.
wewbull@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
12.5m?
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merc@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
A 12.5m crater doesn’t sound that big. Sounds like what you get from a bomb in a war zone. Bad if you happen to be right next to it, but If you’re a few blocks away you might have shattered windows, but no structural damage.
Where did you get the numbers btw? I took a quick look and couldn’t find any details on how big the asteroid was.