>>41037362
youre assuming both are the same density and composition, theyre not, but i get what youre saying, "The final mass at impact was around 580 kilograms" thats a hefty meteorite, it was also going at 22500km/h, also over billions of years anything that doesnt fly off will accumulate on it again, like how all the vapor flying off it now will eventually get back on it when its in deep space again
>>41037373
>At 144,000 mph, the impact would be far more violent
than what?
>Shatter the asteroid completely
>Vaporize parts of both bodies
>Send fragments flying at high velocity
what composition bro, these are all assumptions, plus the odds of hitting anything in deep space are super super super fucking low, lets go back to your original post
>a shoe sized micro meteorite
thats no longer a micrometeorite
>I dont know how this object has been traveling this fast for so long and not of self destructed.
correct, theres a good chance its offgassing all the micrometeorites its picked up along the way and theres a core of something else (nickel?)
ok now lets do some math
a mass of 10kg impacting at 144000mi/h gives
20719904882.688 joules of energy
the hiroshima bomb had a yield of 15kilotons, which equates roughly to 63000000000000 joules
>20719904882
>63000000000000
you can easily calculate this shit yourself, also anything but a dead head on collision would just alter the trajectory rather than disintegrate it, dissipating the force
