I believe that part of the ocean is over 6 miles deep! It should absorb the impact pretty well.
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/
May 20, 2010
What would the affects be of a 1 mile wide astroid hitting in the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean?
May 17, 2010
Huge Astroid Strikes Earth
Animation of huge astroid striking the earth and destroying life. Commentary in Japanese, but the visuals are worth it if you don’t speak that language.
Duration : 0:7:18
May 16, 2010
How lucky are we that a random astroid killed all the dinosaurs?
Life would suck with them around. Please don’t tell me a flood did it, that would be totally ridiculous.
Well, if it were true that an astroid killed all the dinosaurs, how did people survive? After all, dinosaurs lived at the same time man did. They were both created on the 6th day.
May 13, 2010
Do any of you know about this, about an astroid hitting earth int he future?
Whe an astroid is supposed to hit earth? I heard it was 2030 or 2036 sometime. What is the latest on this? Is this true? I am just curious and thanks for answering.
Apparantly this being kept quiet, to prevent the Chinese finding out, but the asteroid should hit in 2032. It’s got an iron core, so has too much mass to deflect, but should cause localised damage only.
The damage done if it lands in the sea would be rather large, taking out coastal cities on both sides, but if it lands on land the blast would be less than a thousand miles across, and only dim the light by less than 1%.
We’re currently keeping it under wraps until we know where it’ll hit, as a direct hit on Chinese soil would cripple their economy, it being centralised.
If it looks like it’ll land in America or Russia, we’ll work together to prevent its impact. Any other country is less predictable, so we’ll work with what we get when it happens.
May 11, 2010
HD Epic Astroid Armageddon
If only the world’s death could be this epic
no i did NOT make the source footage. i merely downloaded it from youtube and remixed it to the music.
Music: Revenga by System of a Down.
and if you want to check out the original footage on the dark side of the moon, go here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zvCUmeoHpw&fmt=22
Duration : 0:1:1
May 8, 2010
Is it true an astroid is hitting earth on 2038?
I heard the news on tv (Im in uruguay) and they said that there would be a astroid on 2038 that would hit earth, does this mean we are all going to die, and how come nobody is talking about it, and no I did not hear wrong, the news doesn’t lie
Im scared does that mean I only have 28 years left to live
No, this is not true.
Your TV news are probably talking about Apophis. You’ve got the date wrong – it’s 2036 – and the chances of an impact are very low – 1 in 250 000, so you have nothing to worry about.
a near miss with earth.May 7, 2010
astroid apophis asteroide apofis 2036How would earth be affected if a hufe astroid hit Jupitar & provided it with enough mass to become a star?
Jupitar has 90% the mass it needs to be a star, and it seems to "smolder" is it limits more radiation than it recieves from the sun.
The 90% figure is completely wrong, it’s more like a factor of fifty or so.
Anyway, it wouldn’t make much different for life on Earth. It would be a red dwarf with a luminosity comparible to the full moon. Quite a sight really, because all this light would be concentrated in a small diameter. But its heat and radiation would not be enough to increase the earth’s temperature.
So what would we gain? Four or five months a year, the night sky would show a very bright reddish star, with probably just enough light to read and throw shadows. The rest of the year it would be up in the daylight or twilight. You could see it, if you know where to look for it.