Talk:Origins (Horizons)/@comment-44914179-20200124053356

RE: The Meteor / Sphere containing the omnitrix hitting Earth, specifically Ethan's backyard at 28,000 mph:

So for some reason, that detail kinda tripped me out, and I decided to do a little... Science.

Let's assume that the sphere containing the omnitrix was pretty small, only the watch and the housing. Let's say so we have a easy analog, it's about the size of a medicine ball, about 13.7 inches across. Let's also assume that since this object survived re-entry with minimal damage, and the long flight to get to earth, it's a pretty beefy sphere, weighing 65 lbs.

So now we have a medicine ball sized sphere with a Density of 245.67 kg/m3 (basically just a 65 pound medicine ball) made of indistinct alien metal, hurtling toward earth at 28,000 mph.

First things first because America hates the Metric System, let's convert that velocity into Km/s (it's goin pretty dang fast!) and it comes out to 12.52 km/s (about eight miles in a second!)

Now, doing some crazy techno wizardry I don't want to bore you with, a 65 pound 13.7 inch wide sphere going straight down into earth at 28,000 miles will result in...

(Pardon the metric units because science)

A simple crater (basically your typical bowl-like crater) with a rim to rim diameter of 112 meters (367.454 feet), and the impact would at the point of contact yield 432,000,000 Joules of force, which is equivalent to 227 pounds of TNT detonating, raising the temperature to a staggering 400958.6 degrees farenheit. This all would occur in about 0.787 seconds, and the crater would be slightly longer than a football field in every direction, centered on the omnitrix orb itself.

I dunno it was a detail that kinda took me out of the whole thing.