As we all know, there are many meteorites in the vastness of space. The number of these meteorites is more than the total grains of sand in all the deserts and beaches on the earth!
Because of this, asteroids hitting the Earth happen almost every day in our solar system.
No matter day or night, many meteorites are captured by the earth's gravity every day. However, compared with the dark night, human eyes are covered by sunlight during the day and cannot see this phenomenon.
Those meteorites captured by the earth's gravity will have severe friction with the earth's atmosphere during the fall, thus glowing and heating, turning into a huge fireball flying at high speed, which looks very bright and beautiful in the dark night.
The vast majority of asteroids are relatively small in size and mass, and will burn up in the air before falling to the ground, and have no chance of contacting the earth.
However, there are also some relatively large asteroids, such as those with a diameter of more than one meter and less than ten meters, which will not be burned in the atmosphere. When they fall to the ground, they are what people often call meteorites, which are stones that fell from the sky.
If the asteroid were larger, such as an asteroid with a diameter of more than 10 meters, it would cause a catastrophic event near the landing site.
Generally, larger meteorites are more likely to cause catastrophes. Meteorites with a diameter of more than 100 meters will bring global disasters to the earth, while super-giant meteorites with a diameter of more than 1,000 meters will cause a global mass extinction of life on the earth.
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Speaking of mass extinction events, let’s press the pause button here and shift our focus to the ancient Earth 65 million years ago.
The 65 million-year-old earth was an era ruled by giant beasts. It was the sunset era of the dinosaur family that had dominated the earth's ecosystem for 160 million years. It was a tragic era of disaster.
That day, countless dinosaurs were living carefree lives on the earth as usual. Suddenly, a dazzling white light appeared in the sky - a boulder 10 kilometers in diameter, equivalent to the size of a medium-sized city, fell from the sky.
It was an asteroid attracted by the gravity of the Earth! At an astonishing speed of 40 kilometers per second, it pulled a huge tail flame hundreds of kilometers long and crashed into the vibrant Earth.
This impact was so violent that no event in human history can compare with it.
The asteroid rushed towards the Earth at a speed of more than 40 times the speed of sound. It was very large. When it hit the Earth, its front end had already touched the surface, but its tail was still at an altitude of 35,000 feet, which is equivalent to a jet.
The flight altitude of the passenger aircraft.
After an earth-shattering impact, the mountain-like meteorite hit a huge crater on the seabed.
The high temperature generated by the impact of billions of tons of seawater quickly vaporized, and the steam was sprayed tens of thousands of meters into the sky! The tsunami that was immediately set off was as high as 5 kilometers and spread at an extremely fast speed...
The sky-high water swept everything on the land, and the huge waves of several kilometers hit the entire earth, quickly triggering volcanic eruptions on the Deccan Plateau, and at the same time changing the direction of movement of the earth's plates.
What a terrible disaster it was for the lives of that period!
Meteorites hitting the earth produced overwhelming dust, the polar glaciers melted, plants were destroyed, and volcanic ash covered the entire sky.
For a time, the earth became dark, the temperature dropped sharply, heavy rains poured down, flash floods broke out, and mudslides swept away the dinosaurs and buried them.
In the months and even years that followed, the sky was still filled with dust and smoke and dark clouds.
The earth has entered a low temperature due to the lack of sunlight all year round, and the vast land was silent for a while. The most brilliant era in the history of biology ended...
The screen switches back to Titan Continent.
The asteroid that crashed into the Titan continent was a very rare iron-nickel meteorite.
This kind of meteorite has a very high hardness and is huge in size. During the process of passing through the earth's atmosphere, the time and distance are not enough for it to fully burn.
In other words, after falling to the ground, the meteorite can retain at least about 80% of its material existence! That is a very scary value! Because the entire meteorite is more than 800 meters in diameter and weighs millions of tons!
Even if 80% of the mass is left, more than 600,000 tons of material will hit the Titan continent.
If such a huge meteorite hits the Titan continent, it will be a catastrophic disaster! The impact will last for decades, or even hundreds of years, on the Titan continent!
The huge meteorite pulled a huge tail flame that was hundreds of kilometers away, quickly streaking across the sky at a speed of 40 kilometers per second, and the rumbling sound it emitted made people feel frightened.
"I hope this meteorite will not fall on the Titan continent..."
Looking at the huge meteorite that quickly passed over his head, Lin Shuhang kept praying. He really hoped that the meteorite would change direction in mid-air and fly to other places. But he also knew that this was just a sign before the disaster struck.
Just comforting myself.
The Titan Continent has a vast territory, and its area is larger than the entire Asian continent. Lin Shuhang is located in the center of the entire continent. In other words, this meteorite cannot fall anywhere else. It will definitely hit the Titan Continent.
, there is no suspense!
Now Lin Shuhang just wants that giant meteorite to be burned by the earth's atmosphere as much of its material as possible before it hits the ground. It is best if it can explode in mid-air, break into pieces, and break into a rain of meteorites. Only in this way will it not have any impact on the Titan continent.
to cause greater harm.
Although the idea is good, the problem is that this is not an ordinary meteorite, but an iron meteorite with an extremely large diameter.
Iron meteorites are heavy, hard, and huge in size, making them difficult to be completely burned by the atmosphere.
A few minutes later, the huge iron meteorite still fell on the Titan continent.
The place where it fell was a desolate mountain, more than 1,000 kilometers away from Lin Shuhang in a straight line.
Before landing, this iron meteorite had already burned part of its material by high temperatures in the Earth's atmosphere, but even so, its diameter was only an astonishing 500 meters, and its total mass was about 800,000 tons.
This weight is almost the total weight of the 13 Liaoning aircraft carriers combined!
Such a heavy giant iron meteorite bombarded the earth from tens of thousands of meters high in space at a speed of 40 kilometers per second. This kind of devastating bombardment and destructive power can no longer be described by cannonballs, because this world has never
No artillery shell weighs 800,000 tons.
The weight acceleration turned this giant iron meteorite weighing nearly one million tons into an astonishingly powerful "Fist of God", which hit the desolate mountains with a loud "boom".
Suddenly, the ground shook!
Believe me, you will never see that kind of impact scene in your lifetime!
The huge impact instantly flattened dozens of mountains thousands of meters high.
Those are dozens of mountains with a height of several thousand meters! In just one move, they were flattened. Can you imagine how huge the potential energy of this iron meteorite is? To put it bluntly, even the most powerful human beings today
The nuclear weapons are only one hundred billionth of the size of this meteorite.
After the first big impact, the structure of the entire iron meteorite did not change much. The iron content of this stone from space reached an astonishing 80%. It is not difficult to say that it is a natural large iron lump.
Not an exaggeration.
The huge iron meteorite has not lost its strength. Like a powerful earth-penetrating bomb, it continues to penetrate downward with strong potential energy. It reaches an astonishing speed of 30 kilometers per second!
The scene was like a bullet hitting tofu. An iron meteorite with a diameter of several hundred meters pushed away hundreds of millions of tons of soil in an instant.
Believe me, hundreds of millions of tons of soil were really blown high into the sky by falling meteorites, because the splashing soil also contained many huge mountains.
Hundreds of millions of tons of soil were squeezed away by the iron meteorite's brute force, and the goddess flew high into the sky like flowers, reaching a height of tens of thousands of meters by visual inspection.
What is the concept of a height of tens of thousands of meters? In other words, if you fly over the point where the meteorite fell on a plane at this moment, the soil blown away by the meteorite can hit the belly of the plane you are riding on!
After the terrible collision, dozens of mountains with a height of several thousand meters disappeared completely! A huge impact crater with a diameter of more than 280 kilometers was left in the open space.
The crater was filled with smoke and dust, and the soil and sand at the bottom of the impact crater were completely melted and turned into hard quartz under the action of huge high temperature and pressure. The scene was shocking.
Lin Shuhang and Crazy General were about 1,000 kilometers away from the meteorite impact point. At this distance, the sound of the impact would take at least dozens of minutes to reach them.
Because it was far away from the meteorite's impact point, the first thing Lin Shuhang and Crazy General saw after the meteorite hit the ground was a violent flash of light on the horizon, which was caused by the big explosion that occurred after the meteorite hit the ground.
After the flash, a huge gray curtain of earth appeared near the horizon.
The earth curtain is thousands of kilometers wide and reaches tens of thousands of meters in height.
Those are mountains smashed into powder by meteorites!
"What is that?" Looking at the giant earth curtain rising from the ground on the horizon, the audience outside the live broadcast room talked a lot, because no one had ever seen such a weird sight.
"If I guessed correctly, that gray earth curtain should be the earth that was blown away by the meteorite." Someone said.
"Dirt blown away by meteorites?"
The live broadcast room immediately exploded: "Oh my God! The impact force is too terrible, isn't it? It seems that the height of the soil hit is at least tens of thousands of meters!"
"Can the impact force be small? This is an asteroid weighing millions of tons, and the destructive force caused by mass acceleration is geometrically multiple."
"I'm afraid the anchor is going to be in bad luck!" someone said.
"What do you mean?" Lin Shuhang asked in fear.
"You will know right away." Someone said: "There will be terrible vibrations and shock waves after a big impact, and that is the most deadly."
Sure enough, more than ten minutes later, the strong vibrations and shock waves caused by the big impact finally reached Lin Shuhang.