A1 6 See You Crater, Planet Earth!

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the damage caused to the planet Earth due to the collision of the asteroid in the film Armageddon. Continuing previous work [1], we used our previous transient crater value of 7346 km to find the final diameter of 23505 km with the knowledge that the impact would result in the formation of a complex crater with a range of depths between 1175.3 km and 2350.5 km. Using a simple conversion we found that the kinetic energy imparted onto the Earth to be 1.34 × 1029 J during the impact event, a value that is almost half a million times greater than that for the impact that killed the dinosaurs.