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human
Does a meteorite moving half the speed of a meteorite weighing twice as much have the same destructive power?

I just had a crazy dream where small, fast meteorites were landing all over the place and just making a little impact. But then a huge one flew in slowly, or slower, and it caused a huge, atomic bomb-like, explosion killing me in the process.

This got me wondering what had more destructive potential. Twice as fast or twice as heavy? 

Let's say, for this exercise, they are made from the same material, perhaps iron.
gpt
Because kinetic energy scales linearly with mass, and to velocity squared, a meteor weighing half as much as another but moving twice as fast will have twice the energy.

KE = 0.5 * Mass * Velocity^2

So if mass is halved, and velocity doubled, kinetic energy doubles.