Just heard last night we got whooshed by an asteroid recently.
75,000 miles away.
Where would be the best place for one to hit with the least amount of damage and loss of life?
The article I saw said that it would have been about Tunguska-1908-powerful had it impacted. A megaton or so? (Fact-check on aisle drastic?) Pretty sizeable bang; probably be fine as long as it hit anywhere that wasn’t populated. Remote ocean or desert would be “best,” I’d imagine.
The worst, on the other hand, would probably be right on the West Bank somewhere.
Googling on ‘tunguska megaton’, I see quotes from 12.5 megatons to upwards of 40 megatons, but it seems the general consensus is 15-20. That was ~60 meters across. The CNN article on this one describes it as “the size of a football field”, so slightly larger than Tunguska.
The best place for it to hit would be on another planet, thanks.
Let the moon take the hit; that’s why we installed it.
Probably the Sahara Desert but that’s just a WAG.
Tunguska was an air burst, was it not? So we would want an air burst over a non-populated area and not want an ocean hit.
Supposedly Tunguska was a cometary nucleus (hence the explosion in the air); if the recent asteroid is rock and/or iron, it would make a big hole put a lot of steam or dust into the air. Maybe the middle of Australia would do.
Ocean Hit = Tsunami, right?
Quasi
Actually, maybe somewhere in that area wouldn’t be so bad. Clear things out and start anew. Or maybe get everyone to work together?
Dundee in Scotland definetly.