• Question: if the world got hit by 1000 1 meter x 1 meter meteors, would anything noticeable happen? except all the big meteors being everywhere...

    Asked by MCKingferdsta to Elliot, Hazel, Thomas on 23 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Elliot Jokl

      Elliot Jokl answered on 23 Jun 2016:

      Cool question!

      So the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs was thought to be 10km across. If we assume this was a sphere, this would have a volume a trillion times bigger than a meteor that was one meter across. So based on that, I don’t think that meteors that big would do a lot of damage compared to the massive meteors, though I certainly wouldn’t want to be hit by one! They would probably still make craters and damage wherever they land because they will be going quite fast.

    • Photo: Thomas Biggans

      Thomas Biggans answered on 23 Jun 2016:

      That size of meteor would probably burn up in the atmosphere before it reached the ground. At worst they would create a shockwave called an air burst which is essentially like a tsunami of air. A small air burst would probably go unnoticed but if you had 1000 small air bursts happening at the same time they could all add together and cause some damage.

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