collect the information about the composition of asteroids and what will happen if it hits our earth
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Depends upon a few factors, such as the size, speed, hit angle and landing point. If it is 10 feet across, it may skip off of the atmosphere or create a pretty fireworks explosion in the sky. If it’s 100 feet across, it may cause a massive explosion, like the one at Tunguska. If its a quarter mile wide, it could take out an entire region, but if its 10km wide, well, that's a game changer for just about anyone and any living thingwalking or crawling the Earth. That's what we may call an ELE, or Extinction-levelEvent, and it doesn't really matter where ithits. The deepest point in the oceans is only 11 km deep, and a typical speed for impacting. bolides is around 30 kilometers per second (around 90 times the speed of sound) -could be slower or faster. Unlike smaller meteors, an asteroid that size will not be slowed down much by the atmosphere. It will punch through in lessthan 3 seconds like it's hardly eventhere. And when it reaches the surface, it will hit so hard thatit won't matter if it strikes ocean or land. Most people within a hundred miles or so of the impact point will either drop dead from the concussion of the compression wave of the incoming bolide, or will be completely vaporized. They will most like never knowwhat hit them, but they're the lucky ones…
lucky ones…The energy of the impact will also vaporize alarge amount of the Earth's crust, possibly creating a crater more than one hundred kilometers across, throwing all that rock and dirt (known as ‘ejecta') into the air. The outrush of air from the impact with cause winds reaching out up to a thousand miles, with wind speeds that may exceed 900 miles per hour.If you are near a coast, and the bolide hits mid-ocean, wave depths near the shore may reach overa mile in heightand travel hundreds of miles inland. Horrible, unimaginable earthquakes will be felt worldwide, andthe sound of the impact will reach out thousands of miles, serving as a warning regarding the real hell that is about to come.
Some of the ejecta will be going so fast that it will fly right out of the Earth's atmosphere and go into orbit around the Earth. But most of it will rain back downon the Earth. - The entire Earth, heating the atmopshere to temperatures possibly near 900 degrees (hot enough to melt lead). Thisheat will last several hours and feel like the inside of an oven. It will trigger forest fires and cook anyone or anything that isn't sheltered deep underground. Your house and even your clothes may likely spontaneouslycombust. You will not survive,but you're probably luckier than the few people who will, because the ugliness is stilljust beginning…
The combination ofdust from the impact, and soot from the forest fires will remain in the Earth's atmosphere fora year or so, blocking the light of the Sun. Without sunlight, muchof the Earth's plantlife will die. The entire food chain will collapse.
Many species of animals--including the human race, if we aren't both lucky and resourceful!--will die out, either in the initial catastrophe, orin the ensuing years due to lack of food and the general devastation of the environment.
And if you are fortunate enough to survive all of the above, you and the other survivors, which may number less than 50,000 or even 20,000 of the nearly 7 billion we currently have, will literally be reduced to stone age living for a time. You and the other survivors will scrounge just to continue to exist, eating anything that comes your way.
All in all, if you survive such an impact, the next few years of your life won't be your best.
lucky ones…The energy of the impact will also vaporize alarge amount of the Earth's crust, possibly creating a crater more than one hundred kilometers across, throwing all that rock and dirt (known as ‘ejecta') into the air. The outrush of air from the impact with cause winds reaching out up to a thousand miles, with wind speeds that may exceed 900 miles per hour.If you are near a coast, and the bolide hits mid-ocean, wave depths near the shore may reach overa mile in heightand travel hundreds of miles inland. Horrible, unimaginable earthquakes will be felt worldwide, andthe sound of the impact will reach out thousands of miles, serving as a warning regarding the real hell that is about to come.
Some of the ejecta will be going so fast that it will fly right out of the Earth's atmosphere and go into orbit around the Earth. But most of it will rain back downon the Earth. - The entire Earth, heating the atmopshere to temperatures possibly near 900 degrees (hot enough to melt lead). Thisheat will last several hours and feel like the inside of an oven. It will trigger forest fires and cook anyone or anything that isn't sheltered deep underground. Your house and even your clothes may likely spontaneouslycombust. You will not survive,but you're probably luckier than the few people who will, because the ugliness is stilljust beginning…
The combination ofdust from the impact, and soot from the forest fires will remain in the Earth's atmosphere fora year or so, blocking the light of the Sun. Without sunlight, muchof the Earth's plantlife will die. The entire food chain will collapse.
Many species of animals--including the human race, if we aren't both lucky and resourceful!--will die out, either in the initial catastrophe, orin the ensuing years due to lack of food and the general devastation of the environment.
And if you are fortunate enough to survive all of the above, you and the other survivors, which may number less than 50,000 or even 20,000 of the nearly 7 billion we currently have, will literally be reduced to stone age living for a time. You and the other survivors will scrounge just to continue to exist, eating anything that comes your way.
All in all, if you survive such an impact, the next few years of your life won't be your best.
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Asteroids are the minor planets in the inner solar system that orbits around the sun just like any other planets. Large asteroids are hence also called as planetoids.
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- The composition of asteroids varies according to the type of asteroids.
- Like Ceres is an asteroid made up of rocky core and icy mantle while Vesta is another asteroid made up of nickel iron core and olivine mantle.
- If an asteroid hits the earth’s surface, the energy release by the asteroid can destroy anything half a mile radius.
- If the asteroid is as tall as the building, it can destroy whole city.
- If the asteroid is about half a mile radius large then it can destroy several countries and is 10 million times powerful than that of Hiroshima bombing. It can have an impact up to 1000 miles away.
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