[QUOTE=BricknHead;17732047]and it would also send shrapnel into Earth's atmosphere, proceed to burn up, superheating the planet in a matter of hours and we'd quite literally be cooked alive[/QUOTE]
Yeah but at least we saw something awesome before we all died.
To put this into perspective for you all:
[img]http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/6585/oooonooooothepeaisgoing.png[/img]
This is approximate. I couldn't get it perfectly into scale with the distance from the Earth.
[QUOTE=BricknHead;17732047]and it would also send shrapnel into Earth's atmosphere, proceed to burn up, superheating the planet in a matter of hours and we'd quite literally be cooked alive[/QUOTE]
How do you figure? The shrapnel would most likely remain in an orbit similar to the moon's, unless we're very unlikely, the larger bits wouldn't be ejected in retrograde fast enough to de-orbit (1.2km/s) and then even if that happens, when the objects hit the Earth, they would be moving at a quite slow velocity, with much of their potential for destruction gone. In most cases, the shrapnel would simply remain in orbit around the earth, forming a ring, much like the rings of Saturn, only thousands of times smaller.
[QUOTE=Kagrenak;17733265]How do you figure? The shrapnel would most likely remain in an orbit similar to the moon's, unless we're very unlikely, the larger bits wouldn't be ejected in retrograde fast enough to de-orbit (1.2km/s) and then even if that happens, when the objects hit the Earth, they would be moving at a quite slow velocity, with much of their potential for destruction gone. In most cases, the shrapnel would simply remain in orbit around the earth, forming a ring, much like the rings of Saturn, only thousands of times smaller.[/QUOTE]
I'd really like to see a ring around earth how cool would that be
besides the ring of random garbage and crap we've got around us atm
Hopefully we will be able to see the bastard fly over us in 20 years.
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