Meteor Craters from Around the World part 3

[AuntieDiluvian]

Nicely done!

[conniekut]

a question,, how long do meteors fly? why is the impact so huge when the meteor is small?

[jeromeyward]

It's all about kinetic energy. You drop a rock from a few feet, it can make a dent in the ground. You drop it from a plane, you get a hole. Now, if there was a solid chunk of iron the size of a house, weighing the better part of 5,000 tons moving at say, 30 miles PER SECOND, the impactor would have the same energy as it's mass in TNT. A house size meteor would have the impact force ofa tactical nuke. As for how long they fly, no more than 15 seconds in the atmosphere, billions of yrs bef.

[jeromeyward]

Part 4 is not going to be put up. I lost the files I needed to make it in an unfortunate deleting incident. (I was cleaning off the hard drive and erased it on accident).

[tehmaz11]

good but u have missed a hell lot of stuff and a lot better craters and more famous too

[Nuker1337]

craters which are younger than that as well? Also it says at the end "continues in part 4...", and part 4 doesn't even exist yet.

[jeromeyward]

My home internet is off for the time being. I won't be able to upload part 4 for a few weeks.

[Nuker1337]

do you have any plans of uploading the 4th part within a forseeable future?

[jeromeyward]

Probably not for a few months. I'm on Roadrunner lite, it takes hours to upload anything. As soon as people start buying cars again, I'll get back on turbo.

[MadBadVoodo]

Five Stars!!