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Subject:
Asteroid energy
Category: Science > Physics Asked by: deathcloset-ga List Price: $2.00 |
Posted:
06 Dec 2003 01:24 PST
Expires: 05 Jan 2004 01:24 PST Question ID: 284079 |
how much heat would the collision of two c-class asteroids produce? I know it will create or at least release some. "4 Vesta has been studied recently with HST." "There is a gigantic impact basin so deep that it exposes the mantle beneath Vesta's outer crust." |
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Re: Asteroid energy
From: vincecate-ga on 06 Dec 2003 10:30 PST |
The simulator at: http://spacetethers.com/spacetethers.html in examples 68-70 has asteroids hitting earth and how much energy they have. |
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Re: Asteroid energy
From: proz-ga on 31 Dec 2003 23:58 PST |
you need to know the velocities and masses of the two asteroids and how they collide. for a perfectly inelastic collision, you conserve momentum and depending on the angles of impact may need to do some vector math to find the momentum of the resultant asteroid. you would then find the energy of the origional asteroids (ke= 1/2* m* v^2) and subtract the KE of the resultant asteroid. this is the energy lost to heat. |
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Re: Asteroid energy
From: proz-ga on 01 Jan 2004 00:07 PST |
also, I am not sure how much I remember from astromony but isnt class 3 simply reffering to carbonaceous? to me it sounds like the calculations would be very messy because you could not really have a near perfect elastic or inelastic collision, some more context would help |
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Re: Asteroid energy
From: deathcloset-ga on 15 Jan 2004 20:45 PST |
Neato, thank you both for the info thus far. I guess...well, let's assume that the two class-c asteroids (you are correct, they are caronaceous; I chose class-c simply because they are the most abundant type)are perfectly spherical, 1 kilometer in diameter, 500,000,000,000kg and impact at a velocity of, oh, lets say 20 kilometers a second. To add, my original question -I now see- is flawed. Whereas I thought the mantle of vespa was glowing from the impact, it actaully appears that vespa has a molten core and that the impact simply exposed this already heated interior. Nonetheless curiosity still remains. Again, thank you. And Proz, I apprieciate your taking of this low-value question and on the NEW YEAR! very cool, very. I was your last comment of 2003 and first of 2004! (pacific standard time) |
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Re: Asteroid energy
From: mclean48-ga on 02 Feb 2004 10:54 PST |
Another thing not to forget about is rotional enegry (both about it's own center of mass and about it's "instant zero" |
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