The meteorite scene hits the earth

We will be crushed before we hear an explosion if a meteorite with a diameter greater than 50 m plunges into the green planet.

The video below - created by experts from Newscience - simulates the sight of a large meteor hitting the earth.

Collisions between the earth and objects in the universe are not as rare as many people think. Scientists believe that a meteorite or comet exploded above the Tunguska River in Siberia, Russia in 1908. The explosion flattened the entire area full of trees with a radius of tens of kilometers. According to Nature, the probability of such an asteroid explosion is about 1/500 per year. That means the probability of meteorites hitting the Earth within 50 years is 10%.

Timothy Spahr - director of the Center for asteroids in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - confirmed that if an object is 50 meters or more in diameter, it will cause catastrophic destruction on a large area. great.

The explosion will emit more light than sunlight. Visible radiation and infrared radiation will be strong enough to burn everything. All people who directly suffer radiation will be burned. That's the judgment of Mark Boslough, a scientist at Sandia National Laboratory Center, USA.

Newscientist said, the pressure from the explosion will create a mass of air with super pressure. It spreads in the atmosphere at a speed greater than sound. Therefore, humans can be crushed by the spread of the air mass before hearing the explosion. Even solid high-rise buildings can collapse with its power.

The oceans occupy more than two thirds of the earth. Therefore, if an object with a diameter greater than 100 m falls into the ocean, it can cause huge waves capable of destroying buildings along the coast. Scientists from the US Aeronautics Agency claim meteorites will cause a more terrible disaster if they fall into the ocean instead of on land.

There are two ways to prevent meteors from crashing into the earth. The first way is to shoot meteors with nuclear missiles so that it shatters. The second way is to launch the spacecraft near the meteorite so that the gravity from the spacecraft deflects the meteor's orbit. In addition, spacecraft can also fire missiles to cause explosions on meteorite surfaces. The impact of the explosion will deflect its trajectory.

Here is another video that simulates a meteorite crash that can erase life on Earth.Source: Discovery Channel.