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Comment Re:Party like it's 2099 (Score 1) 524

Your 'spitball' landed pretty close to my 'back of the envelope' calculation that I posted just before I saw your message. I used the numbers from the same graph but with 1,500 MT and a little algebra to come up with 16% (rounded off from 16.4%)

If the impact energy were exactly 1,500 MT it works out to a Torino number of:

9 at 99%
5 at ~16.4%
4 at 1%
2 at ~0.164%
1 at ~0.00164%

Currently the energy is estimated at 1,480. But it has moved a bit in the range of 1,400 - 1,600 which would shift some of the percentages above slightly. It would take a very large shift in enenergy to get other Torino numbers.

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