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What about in the middle of the ocean? Instead of kicking up dust, I suspect there'd be a huge amount of water flash-boiled and displaced, leading to a huge tsunami. And since 860 gigatons isn't enough to actually cook the Earth's surface (to melting point), how much would be?

Not that any of this matters from a story perspective; the only thing that's narratively significant is "big thing hits surface hard" - but being able to answer these questions with mathematically accurate answers would help with credibility. To that end, a third question I have which is...

Starting altitude: 350km Iggy's composition (for density calculation): varying degrees of mostly steel, aluminium, titanium and ceramics. Composition of Iggy's impact sight: H20 with varying levels of NaCl, MgCl, CaCl and other salts somewhere along latitude 0.

Nah, I know it is correct, that's not what I was asking. My questions are listed above the equation

I have to admit, I wasn't sure this thread would get a great deal of traffic after being moved to this forum. Clearly I was mistaken. The responses have been incredibly insightful, and I thank you all for the valuable insights. I will definitely take them into account while writing. In the...

Hi All, First time poster here, and I've got a couple questions. Straight up, I'm writing a sci-fi story where antimatter is utilised as fuel (feel free to laugh at the cliche), and I want to portray it as realistically as possible. To that end, I've come up with a storage method and I want to...