Meteor Blast Estimated At 470 Kilotons

[Hoofbite]

That's nuts. 30-40X bigger than Hiroshima?

http://news.yahoo.com/russian-meteors-origin-size-pinned-down-115545347.html

It was only 50 feet across and had that big of a blast? Almost unreal to think of what a bigger chunk would do.

 

[jobberone]

M x V2 = E. I think it may have been a little bigger. 30,000 mph squared x mass equals a lot of energy.