The 2015 PDC Hypothetical Asteroid Impact Scenario

This simulator is cool but it lacks two very important things...Bruce Willis and a soundtrack by Aerosmith.

This webpage does not describe a real potential asteroid impact. The information on this page is fictional and provided only to support an emergency response exercise conducted during the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) 2015 Planetary Defense Conference in Frascati, Italy, April 13-17, 2015. This is only an exercise.

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That was a good read. It really rocked my world.

Imagine the fun Orson Welles could have had with this.

Using Purdue's Impact Earth Asteroid Strike Calculator (with a density of 2200 kg/m^3), you can calculate the damage that would occur. It looks like that the airburst would occur at about 5.8 km above the surface. Considering that at 10 km, the generated wind speed is listed at 358 mph, the damage it would cause below the detonation point would be massive. In the scenario, that point would be in India and would probably lead to hundreds of thousands of casualties.

I'm building my underground shelter now, I knew this was going to happen, it's the end of the world! Oh, hypothetical, well I'll just wait for the story to hit other sites where they leave that out, then I can believe.