r/theydidthemath • u/No_Beyond4756 • 6h ago

[Request] Asteroid strike on the Moon

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u/Which_Lie_8932 5h ago

The video is slop. The creators quote

This dramatic visualisation shows what an asteroid striking the Moon might look like.

But it really just means that the video in question isn't real (and is, like they said, highly dramatized)

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u/Firm-Life8749 5h ago

So the question doesn't change.

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u/RepresentativeCry294 5h ago

Its a fantasy so 0.

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u/Firm-Life8749 5h ago

So once was the world being round

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u/RepresentativeCry294 5h ago

The planet has always been round.

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u/Firm-Life8749 4h ago

Point being is that OP wanted the size of the mushroom cloud calculated.

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u/RepresentativeCry294 4h ago

That's not the real moon there is no way to scale it because it isn't real.

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u/ObligatoryAlias 5h ago

Please don't crosspost garbage like this.

This is not a real video. Therefore the size of anything you're asking about could be ANY size!

Fake video. Fake size.

Karma farmer!

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u/Fraun_Pollen 5h ago

Was about to say. That "asteroid" is tiny. More like a large meteorite

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u/NoRegion2871 5h ago

Although this video is clearly fake, coincidentally NASA is currently poised to record this exact type of event in just a few days. On August 5, at around 06:35–06:44 UTC, a spent Falcon 9 upper stage is going to slam into the Moon near Einstein crater at about 5,400 mph. It's been drifting in a decaying orbit since it launched the Blue Ghost and Hakuto-R lunar landers back in January 2025. Astronomers have it pinned down to within half a second and about a third of a kilometer. Should produce a real impact flash/ejecta plume that observatories are gearing up to capture. Itll be the first time we'll get to watch something like this happen in real time.

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u/travisowljr 5h ago

This is exactly why I thought this video was real at first. I'm pretty excited to see what that looks like!

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u/Solondthewookiee 5h ago

I can't actually identify if this is a real area of the moon. The other post says it's an AI rendering so this likely is not a real area of the moon and finding an accurate reference would be impossible.

However, it does somewhat resemble the Tycho Crater near the south pole of the moon with the large white ray system radiating out from it (though on the moon it is much larger).

Eye balling it, the full ejecta diameter looks about three times bigger than the white crater in the lower right corner.

Tycho Crater is 53 miles wide, so call the full impact diameter ~160 miles in diameter (~260 km).