A meteorite falling into the ocean, how large would it have to be to throw water up into the stratosphere?

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It's all relative Depends on how much rain you want. And there won't be any nuclear waste or acid involved. It's a simple heat equation-- each kilo of meteorite hitting the water will be moving at a speed of 5 to 50 Kilometers per second.In energy that's 12.5 to 1250 megajoules per kilo.

Now it takes about 2.5 million Joules to boil a kilo of water. So each Kilo of meteorite can vaporize about 5 to 500 kilos of water.So if you want it to rain for months.... well first estimate how much water that would be in Kilos, then you need about 1/5 to 1/500 of that in meteorite mass.

It took a bit to locate, but there it is. Go to the site there, and know that "stratosphere" is the area 15-50 km above the earth. Sources: lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/ .

1 I've got no idea what you're talking about in the last part. Most meteorites are big blocks of iron or carbon. There isn't any nuclear anything.

I tried to to the calculation, but splashing turns out to be pretty tricky stuff requiring computer calculations that I'm not going to set up. But any meteorite capable of splashing a significant quantity of water 50 km is going to cause some serious tidal waves, and they'll be pretty dangerous all by themselves.

I've got no idea what you're talking about in the last part. Most meteorites are big blocks of iron or carbon. There isn't any nuclear anything.

I tried to to the calculation, but splashing turns out to be pretty tricky stuff requiring computer calculations that I'm not going to set up. But any meteorite capable of splashing a significant quantity of water 50 km is going to cause some serious tidal waves, and they'll be pretty dangerous all by themselves.

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