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That is a question with a great many variables! Let's narrow it down. Let's say a 1 mile wide asteroid made of solid rock is going to impact Lake Michigan 50 miles out to lake at 12 miles per second. You are observing this event from the City of Chicago. It impacts the lake in about 800 feet of water.
In that first instant, there is a flash of light 300 times brighter and hotter than the sun and it appears to be 60 times the size of the sun. There is a good chance this alone will kill you as it will continue to radiate this amount of energy for about 4.5 minutes. But lets say it doesn't, your a super hero.
10-15 seconds after impact the region is struck by a 8.0-8.5 earthquake on the Richter scale that lasts a few minutes. This will certainly begin to crumble the city and general area to the ground.
2 minutes after first light, fragments of molten earth and red hot debris ranging in size from small cars to pebbles begins to rain down all over the place, up to several hundred miles from the impact site and this may last a while.
4 minutes after first light a 1,000 mph hour blast wave arrives sweeping away much of the landscape, strangely enough FOLLOWED by a 120 decibel explosion a minute or so after...most likely blowing out you ear drums, if of course you aren't already a charred, crushed, pulverized smattering of dust already.
Last, but not least, 26 minutes or so after first light, a 200 feet high tsunami comes crashing ashore at 100 mph washing the rest of the landscape away and washing 100-150 miles inland on all sides of the lake, depending on the local topography.
That is one scenario, but these events only occur every few million years and the chance of one happening over the Great Lakes restricts it to an even more infinitesimal chance. SO I wouldn't lose sleep over it. :-)
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What would happen if a human traveled to an asteroid?
Then a human would arrive at an asteroid.
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It is FAR easier to change the direction of an asteroid than to blow it up. All that is needed to accomplish the former is to nudge the asteroid a little off its collision course with Earth, and this could be done with some small explosions on the side of that asteroid. Blowing up an asteroid would be a complete waste of energy.
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If there was no Earth, the Moon would never have been created.Or it would just be an asteroid-type thingy that orbits the sun. or orbits empty space while orbiting the sun.
What would happen if a human traveled to an asteroid?
Then a human would arrive at an asteroid.
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It would depend on the size of the asteroid.
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you would burn up and die
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Northeast of which country? If northeast America, they would be the Great Lakes.
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How does the theory of asteroid impact relate to the extinction of Dinosaurs?
I does not. The asteroid would of had to knock out the entire earth for that to happen. If you think of the facts it is just not possible.
What would happen if more American colonists settle on the land near the great lakes and the Ohio river?
They will start eating more fish.
What would happen if all the Great Lakes dried up?
If all the Great Lakes dried up, the climate would be such that North America would be an extremely arid desert from central Canada to the southern tip of Texas and from Boston to LA. Keep in mind that the Great Lakes is fully 25% of the fresh water supply of the Earth. It feeds and is fed by roughly 75% of the river systems in North America. In short, by the time the Great Lakes dried up, most if not all the animal life, including humans, would be dead.
What would happen if asteroid hit in the middle of the Atlantic ocean?
a big wave dude
If a black hole or an asteroid hit earth what will happend to the ocean?
A black hole would eventually swallow up the entire Earth. An asteroid would provoke great catastrophes - depending, of course, on the mass of the asteroid.
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Im pretty sure that a tornado isnt strong enough to stop and ansteriod..... So the asteroid would just go through the tornado
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Sorry i can't answer this question, but i do not live near the great lakes, but i live near the great lakes i would really like to know some painting contractors in the great lakes region.
