Find Total Force of Explosion in Asteroid Mine Shaft

[Tris Fray Potter]

How would I find the total force of an explosion if I have the energy of the explosion, and no displacement?
The explosion is taking in place inside a mine shaft in an asteroid, and I need to know if the asteroid would blow up or not?
Is it possible to find the force, and how would I do it?

 

[Vanadium 50]

total force of an explosion

Sadly, there is no such thing.

The explosion is taking in place inside a mine shaft in an asteroid, and I need to know if the asteroid would blow up or not?

To get an order of magnitude guess, you should compare the energy of explosion to the binding energy of the asteroid.

 

[Tris Fray Potter]

Sadly, there is no such thing.
To get an order of magnitude guess, you should compare the energy of explosion to the binding energy of the asteroid.

Thank-you. I've been working on this for the past few weeks, and I have, obviously gotten no where.

 

[Noisy Rhysling]

Do you want the asteroid to "explode"? If so then "a previously undetected fault in the stone allowed the explosion to..." etc.