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I know it’s incredibly, vanishingly unlikely but what would happen if an object with these characteristics smacked into Earth?


With this much mass and velocity - it would smash the planet, rupturing the entire crust at the very least.

No matter how infinitesimally small the probability - the universe is infinite, and so it probably will happen.

i3 is much bigger than the Chicxulub asteroid that ended the Cretaceous period (and extinct all non-avian dinosaurs).


The end, unless you're a small proto-mammal ;).

An object (depending on consistency) of about 100m is enough to wipe out a city and do enough damage to the environment. Something of 8-20km is in the same category as what wiped out the dinosaurs (10-15km).


It’s going at 68km/s so I think even microbial life could be in trouble.


You could very well be right!


Seems like it arrives with a bit more energy than a 10 on richter scale: https://www.edinformatics.com/inventions_inventors/richter_s...

No, I can’t really imagine what that means, either.


8-22km at interstellar speeds? Probably total extinction level.




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