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If a 1km wide asteroid hit the Earth?

If a 1km wide asteroid 1km wide hit the Earth, right on top of where you are standing, would you see it approaching in a the sky or would it all happen too quickly to notice?

Update:

If it was going 30km/sec it would enter the atmosphere only about 3 seconds before impact. I don't think you'd feel any effect at all until the last 3 seconds, then you would be incinerated.

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  • someg
    Lv 6
    8 years ago
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    Yes, you would see it coming and then the rings on Uranus would start quivering.

  • 8 years ago

    Ask yourself a few questions. How fast is an asteroid traveling? How far away can you see a 1km rock? Day or night?

    Keep in mind we can see the ISS clearly and its just a few hundred feet long. It is also a couple hundred miles up. If something the size of the ISS were hurtling towards us at 10miles/sec, it would be easily visible well before it hit the atmosphere and doubtless afterwards.

  • John W
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    It would be too quick to notice and you would be dead from the intense radiation of it entering the atmosphere before it hits. You wouldn't last even a fraction of the 3 seconds.

  • 8 years ago

    We would see it coming. The sound itself would give it away. But the sound that will reach us will be the sound that has already happened since the Asteroid is moving at such a fast speed.

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  • 8 years ago

    unlikely because the earths atmosphere will vaporizer the astroid . you might be able to see the vapourised trail

  • 8 years ago

    yes

    its only impossible to see an object if its travelling with speed of light and that's merely impossible

  • 8 years ago

    Maybe u can see it miles away cuz it's freaking km wide .....

  • 8 years ago

    Look on the bright side:-D

  • 8 years ago

    It kind of depends on velocity.

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