Sentence examples for million megatons from inspiring English sources

The impact energy, for comparison with hydrogen bomb blasts, was around 100 million megatons.

The gas giant seems to bear the brunt of impacts from long-period comets; 25 years ago, scientists watched the fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy comet slam into Jupiter with the force of 6 million megatons of TNT.

Calculations suggested that the comet's nucleus broke up after a near collision with the giant planet Jupiter in July 1992 and predicted that the pieces would plunge into Jupiter's atmosphere about July 20 , 1994 unleashing an energy equivalent to roughly 100 million megatons of TNT.

On the other hand, the KT impact 65 million years ago that is though to have caused the dinosaur extinction had an energy of about 100 million megatons: this is 1/3 of a million times greater than the tsunami energy!

The largest pieces, with diameters estimated at about four kilometres, were predicted to unleash an energy equivalent to several million megatons of TNT each during their plunge into Jupiter's atmosphere at speeds of 60 km per second (a kilometre is about 0.62 mi).

That's nearly 5 million megatons of TNT equivalent, many thousand times more than the total nuclear arsenal of all nuclear powers combined.

"It would take a million megaton bomb, and I don't think anyone wants a gigaton bomb orbiting the Earth for asteroid defense".

Twenty-two megatofs of new life.

The explosion would have been between three and five megatons.

The CSS-4 carried a warhead of four to five megatons.

The resulting impact energy is equivalent to 4.4 billion megatons of TNT.