I read somewhere it must’ve turned molten from the atmosphere, but l wonder if like little droplets of metal fell down to earth or if it was just vaporized.
I read somewhere it must’ve turned molten from the atmosphere, but l wonder if like little droplets of metal fell down to earth or if it was just vaporized.
Hypothetically, even if the heat of the blast didn’t vaporize it, I don’t see how something that size moving at 150,000 mph wouldn’t ablate from intense friction with the atmosphere before reaching space.
Dang couple friends using that word ablate in the comments. I gotta look it up.
Before I look it up, I imagined a scenario where it could happen. This is fresh out my butt brain(I’m playing with the phrase “pulling it out of my butt”, meaning making it up for my non-native english speaking friends) I could see this place(existence) playing a crazy trick that when something reaches a certain speed it creates a heat bubble kind of thing around the object, and the object is not affected by extreme heats, because the friction or air resistance around the object make a protective covering, kind of like how sharks have rough skin that grips the water around touching it to apply to the friction of the water around it. Although that’s what I remember from early school science classes.
Ablate is a fun word, in this case; To remove by erosion, melting, evaporation, or vaporization.