Questions tagged [meteor]
For questions about rocky bodies entering planetary atmospheres or settling on planetary surfaces. "Meteor" technically refers to incandescent streaks of friction-heated, falling rock - but "meteorites", meteors that have landed intact, are also within the realm of this tag. Contrast with [asteroids], rocky bodies or particles in space.
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Avoiding a cataclysmic meteor shower
With what is available, with means of transportation or method, what would be best strategy to stay on the opposite side of the Earth during a cataclysmic meteor shower that may last for days?
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Rogue RKKV impacts the Moon
Well, this is my first post here. Been lurking for a while and have read a lot of the RKKV (Relativistic Kinetic Kill Vehicle) questions in my search for a solid answer to my question. Alas, no such ...
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How could a planet stop spinning?
Contextualizing, I'm writing a book where the planet is tidally locked with their star and i want to have a reason for that.
Whatever cause the planet to stop rotating have to also cause a mass ...
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Is this asteroid apocalypse scenario realistic?
So, in response to my own earlier question: Disasters to prompt the bettering of civilisation, I have decided to go with an asteroid impact which decimates much of civilization, with an added twist ...
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Debris from a ringed planet, and believability
I am writing a fantasy book, so while I am not too concerned with being completely scientifically accurate, I would at least like for aspects of my world to feel believable, so as to not take the ...
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How difficult would it be to find today a meteorite impacted on a mountain during the Middle Ages?
I have the following scenario: a large group of enslaved people (one hundred or so?) looking for a meteorite on a mountain. It struck at some point in the Middle Ages.
It is an asteroid of unknown ...
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Is it possible for a planet to have floating islands caused by the magnetism? [duplicate]
I am working on this planet that has several moons and - possibly - rings. In the planet's earliest era after its inception, it was hit by a large meteor that dislodged huge chunks of earth. I'm ...
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What Would Be The Consequences of An Asteroid Literally Falling Onto An Ice Sheet?
On this alternate Last Glacial Maximum Earth powerful psychics bring an asteroid into near earth orbit and deorbit it using entirely laser ablation. Bringing it carefully down onto the Laurentide Ice ...
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Which part of the planets would suffer more meteoric impacts in a doble, tidally locked planet?
Picture a double planetary system, in which two bodies of approximately 0,5 and 0,7 times the mass of Earth orbit a common barycenter. Both bodies are also tidally locked to one another. Neither of ...
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What are some non-military reasons for a country wanting to control an impact crater where the Strait of Gibraltar used to be?
Let's say that there's a 2-million-year-old impact crater where the Strait of Gibraltar used to be, and that there's an impact peak or a series of impact peaks in the middle that are far enough above ...
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Would a gigantic meteor impact in the Strait of Gibraltar create a peak-ring crater, or at least a complex one?
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A peak-ring crater is a sub-type of complex crater (an impact crater in which the impact wave rebounded from the rim of the crater and pushed up a mountain in the middle) where, instead ...
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Would a meteor blowing up the Strait of Gibraltar 2 million years ago kill all of humanity's ancestor species?
Let's say that, 2 million years prior to the present day, a meteor impacts roughly in the middle of the Strait of Gibraltar. It is large enough and strikes at sufficient velocity to create an impact ...
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Earth-killer challenge
Related to this question. A lot of the discussion there got sidetracked from the question of orbital physics, into questions about alien motives and what the humans would do, so I want to start a new ...
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Mechanics of infrequent meteor attacks
There is an Earth-like world, at a level of technology similar to the ancient Romans. Roughly every 20 years, one of the largest, most prosperous cities in this world is annihilated by a meteor ...
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Could someone survive the post impact earth if they go out of the shelter after a few months?
First of all, sorry if my English is bad.
I’m trying to figure out a post-apocalyptic story, so I came up with the so many times recurred asteroid of the size that killed the dinosaurs. Is kind of a ...
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