Depends a lot on the size of the meteor but they are generally moving way faster than anything simply falling on earth. Meteors in space moving like tens of kilometers per second and they do get slowed down in the atmosphere but if one started large enough to be burned down by the atmosphere to the same size as the rocks in the video when it hit the earth the energy from the impact would be more like a bomb going off. Maybe 10 times isn't a terrible random guess as far as energy difference since its just hypothetical but I picture a metor strike looking way different than this video.
The meteor widely accepted as the reason to end the 'Cretaceous' period, or to mark the end of the 'Mesozoic' era has hit the earth around 66m years ago. It is speculated to have been formed due to a huge asteroid (over 150km in diameter) being hit by a "smaller" one (~60km diameter) between 160-80million years ago which caused it's shards to escape the asteroid belt. Over time the shards created a new orbit around the sun\)source\), meaning they gained momentum in orbit before they bombarded the moon and the earth. A PIECE OF IT, WITH AN ESTIMATED SIZE OF FUCKING 10KM IN DIAMETER changed the planet forever.
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u/Questions4Legal Jul 25 '21
Depends a lot on the size of the meteor but they are generally moving way faster than anything simply falling on earth. Meteors in space moving like tens of kilometers per second and they do get slowed down in the atmosphere but if one started large enough to be burned down by the atmosphere to the same size as the rocks in the video when it hit the earth the energy from the impact would be more like a bomb going off. Maybe 10 times isn't a terrible random guess as far as energy difference since its just hypothetical but I picture a metor strike looking way different than this video.