Miracle Planet - Asteroid Impact Simulation

A simulation of a 300 mile wide asteroid striking the Earth, as depicted in "Miracle Planet: The Violent Past." I made this when I saw that most other versions floating around were either poorly edited or had lame watermarks etc. It doesn't fit in at all with this channel, but it is very interesting. An impact with an iron bolide of this size would likely liberate an amount of energy equivalent to many trillions of megatons of TNT, regardless of where it struck. In 1961 the Soviet Union detonated the the most powerful nuclear device ever built, a massive city killer called the "Tsar Bomba." It clocked in at "only" about 50 megatons.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Miracle
• Planet
• Asteroid
• Impact

[TheCarbinJ]

I want to download this video so bad...

[racefanvideo]

@TheCarbinJ That should be fairly easy. Just get a plugin like downloadhelper. I think keepvid.com might still be around too, but I haven't used it in quite a while.

[Matrilwood]

why does it restart at 7:12?

[racefanvideo]

@Matrilwood That section of the video isn't actually restarting, but is being presented as it appears in the documentary. In other words, the segment where the asteroid hits the ocean was repeated by the producers of "Miracle Planet," not me. I thought about editing that out, however leaving it in resulted in a run-time of almost exactly 10 minutes. I agree that it is a bit confusing.

[kcj1993]

Fuck that. I'm going to mars.

[BrotherOrchid]

Poor Japan, not again!

[20ZZ20]

susan boyle farted

[Javis586]

@RadicalMassacre That's irrelevant how long ago it was, if an asteroid 300 miles across we're to hit Earth there would be nothing left.

[RadicalMassacre]

@Javis586 didnt you hear him say it was similar to an impact 4 billion years ago? BILLION not million

[RadicalMassacre]

you know what? if these kinds of impacts really did happen in the earths past, it just proves how incredibly difficult it is to kill off all life on earth. assuming no alien theorists jump in to say "aliens seeded the earth!! hur dur!!" >.> come on...i mean, its another theory, but...regardless, not even goddamn planet covering rock dust the temperature of the sun can sterilize the earth completely, otherwise we wouldnt be here

[Sm00gle]

Wheres the rest of the video?

[elleadnih]

I can never look the sky the same way I used to...

[Generalarceus32]

Krakatoa survives! :D

[Javis586]

Awesome simulation, but terrible information. An asteroid 300 miles across would completely destroy earth and leave nothing but fragments of rock. The asteroid thought to have caused the mass extinction of dinosaurs was about 10 miles across.

[TWOCOWS1]

Thanks for loading this. But where is the rest of it?

[Expectation247]

if that meteorite was in the solar system yes it would fragment before it hit earth, but because of jupiter, etc, gravity. assume it came from another solar system, say 1 in a google chances... it wouldnt break up much before it hit earth. it would just pound earth like a bastard!. the video is pretty ok, but the earth would react like a bubble of maple syrup, perhaps even water, the back end of the earth would blow out by 100 km, there would be blobs 100 km high blown into space.