• skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deM
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    1 year ago

    i’m not sure that drag even matters that hard, you need big sectoral density and a way to prevent tumbling

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_depth

    Meteorite: As may be concluded from the air pressure, the atmosphere’s material is equivalent to about 10 m of water. Since ice has about the same density as water, an ice cube from space travelling at 15 km/s or so must have a length of 10 m to reach the surface of the earth at high speed. A smaller ice cube will be slowed to terminal velocity. A larger ice cube may also be slowed, however, as long as it comes in at a very low angle and thus has to pierce through a lot of atmosphere. An iron meteorite with a length of 1.3 m would punch through the atmosphere; a smaller one would be slowed by the air and fall at terminal velocity to the ground.

    talking about tungsten we’re looking at minimum 50cm long darts, however this ignores atmospheric erosion