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Ap of meteor?
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Can I treat it as free fall?
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If its on fire then its much faster than free fall.
I had a calc for the average meteor done a while ago and I believe it comes out to be town level but that's for small ones, larger can be small city. I suggest you find ways to scale the meteor and then drop it in calc request as the results could be higher with the weight calced
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Our calculations page has a short guide on these: https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Calculations#Meteors_and_Kinetic_Energy
If the meteor enters Earth’s atmosphere from space, you can assume it’s traveling at least 11 km/s, since that’s the minimum
From there it’s as simple as finding a reasonable density for a meteor, calculating the volume then mass, and plugging it into the kinetic energy equation.
Our calculations page has a short guide on these: https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Calculations#Meteors_and_Kinetic_Energy
If the meteor enters Earth’s atmosphere from space, you can assume it’s traveling at least 11 km/s, since that’s the minimum
From there it’s as simple as finding a reasonable density for a meteor, calculating the volume then mass, and plugging it into the kinetic energy equation.
Our calculations page has a short guide on these: https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Calculations#Meteors_and_Kinetic_Energy
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aight so several kilometers is more than 2 so let's take 3km
assuming its spherical here.
density of a meteor is 3-4 g/cm^3 so let's take 3.5
Speed of meteor entry into earth's atmosphere is 11km/s
Search up sphere volume on google and get the calculator for it.
Radius is 1.5 km or 150000 cm
volume is 1.41372e+16 cm^3
1.41372e+16*3.5=4.94802e+16
weight is 4.94802e+16 grams or 49480200000000 kg
Plug it all into the kinetic energy calculator and we get 2.9935521E+21 joules or 715476123326.95983887 tons of TNT or about 715,476,123,327 tons or approximately 715.5 gigatons, High 6-C+
assuming its spherical here.
density of a meteor is 3-4 g/cm^3 so let's take 3.5
Speed of meteor entry into earth's atmosphere is 11km/s
Search up sphere volume on google and get the calculator for it.
Radius is 1.5 km or 150000 cm
volume is 1.41372e+16 cm^3
1.41372e+16*3.5=4.94802e+16
weight is 4.94802e+16 grams or 49480200000000 kg
Plug it all into the kinetic energy calculator and we get 2.9935521E+21 joules or 715476123326.95983887 tons of TNT or about 715,476,123,327 tons or approximately 715.5 gigatons, High 6-C+
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