> ~400m along it's biggest dimension
Where did you find this information? I don't understand all the fields on the page, but don't see any number being 400 within an order of magnitude
Where did you find this information? I don't understand all the fields on the page, but don't see any number being 400 within an order of magnitude
I was hoping someone more familiar with this stuff could write a definitive summary.
Edit: I confused radius and diameter in my calculation and revised it. I may have made other mistakes
For sure the depth of penetration would be different for a rod shaped object of equivalent mass compared to a spheroid, the latter would penetrate much less deep. Angle of incidence would be a factor as well as (obviously) the speed of the impacting body. But if it impacted at a higher speed than that the ejecta could get out of the way it would cause an absolutely massive crater. As though you'd exploded an absolutely enormous nuclear bomb deep underground, but not so deep that the explosion would still reach the surface. That would probably be the worst case scenario for an impact like this.