Timeline for What would a relativistic kill vehicle hitting the moon look like from earth?
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| Apr 17, 2019 at 14:29 | comment | added | Mark C | Ten to the how many? See unformatted LaTeX | |
| Jul 20, 2016 at 3:17 | comment | added | Loren Pechtel | It wouldn't take much burrowing to put a lot of moon mass between the energy release and the Earth. Anything liberated more than a few feet down would not shine on Earth unless it happened to hit a peak. | |
| Jul 20, 2016 at 0:12 | comment | added | ckersch | @LorenPechtel I wasn't sure how far in it would burrow, or how much of the shockwave would pass through the moon, or exactly what shape the high energy particle plume from a relativistic object punching into the surface of the moon would take (which I assume would probably be velocity dependent?), so I made an "assume the elephant is a point mass with zero friction" type assumption :) | |
| Jul 19, 2016 at 22:32 | comment | added | Loren Pechtel | Your energy for the fast option is too high--you're assuming a spherical shockwave but half of that is blocked by the moon itself--thus cutting your energy in half. Also, the energy release is going to be mostly below the surface, blocking just about all of it. The Earth will only get hit by the glow from the plasma kicked up by the impact. | |
| Jul 19, 2016 at 20:45 | history | answered | ckersch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |