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hi im investigating for school, crater charecteristics in reation to the material the meteorite lands in. i have just made "big bertha crater blaster" a catupult balista type thing for firing equally or at a certain power 10N 50N 100N 150N or 200N of power (its pretty powerfull lol) the ball bearings "meteorites" at the surface.

Got any predictions about what will happen when i fire will the crater be bigger for a softer sunstanse or harder sunstance??

my hypothesies is that the softer material will have a smaller crater as it will absorb the energy more and bend a bit but not shatter to form a crater unlike the hard material witch i think wil.


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I'd say yes, in general a harder substance will make a crater larger in area than a softer one. But the target's brittleness -- I'm thinking of Mohs' scale here -- will also have a large effect. Or is that what you were talking about?
If you're measuring crater volume, I have no idea. I'd lean towards the harder material, but that's a not-so-educated guess.
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That sounds interesting anglepose - when are you going to perform the experiment, so that we can know when we'll receive updates?


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my hypothesies is that the softer material will have a smaller crater as it will absorb the energy more and bend a bit but not shatter to form a crater unlike the hard material witch i think wil.
I guess that depends largly on the velocity of the impact. I have seen craters made with naught but baking flour, fairly impressive when magnified a hundred times! but I fail to see how a harder substance, say rock, will make a bigger crater. Maybe when the velocity is a lot higher the size of the flour crater will not increase, whereas the rock crater will increase greatly.


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"impact cratering" experiments 38,000 hits


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Wow everybody, look at that! Uncle Al knows how to use Google! Maybe next time he'll provide some useful information...

Uncle Al - I'm sure people know how to google for the information. If you don't want to actually contribute to a thread, you don't need to post anything.


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Got any predictions about what will happen when i fire will the crater be bigger for a softer sunstanse or harder sunstance??
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Do you? If so, why didn't you? Six months in the lab will save you an afternoon in the library. Impactor, launch, substrate, atmosphere, effects - it's been done. How do you expect to do something original if you have no knowledge of the field? This isn't a creative writing class wherein subliteracy is lauded as creativity,

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I don't remember creativity being a requirement for the assignment, Al. These forums are just a bit more... human... than Google. Plus it gives me something to do in my downtime. So lay off.
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Also Al some of our members are quite young and need a bit more guidence than just google. Original isnt really a requirement for a school project, its about learning something new.


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