Saturday, February 16, 2013

A big meteor fell from the sky in Russia. Could we do some calculations on it?
Yes we can!

Based on simple calculations I've estimated the amount of kinetic energy the object had to be around 1/4 kiloton TNT. So approximately 50 times smaller than Hiroshima. Still a respectable amount of energy.

In addition a simulation of the results if the rock was a little bigger & a little faster... (actually an order of magnitude)


Please note: above simulation assumes all the energy is released at once several hundreds meters above amsterdam. In reality the results will be far less devastating. 

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