Event[]
The impact of Ophelia, Uranus's moon.
Summary[]
Ophelia, a 42 kilometer wide moon of Uranus, smashes into Earth in the Indian Ocean.
Date[]
December 18, 2120
Time[]
1200 UTC
Timeline[]
5 years before impact:
Ophelia breaks off from Uranus's orbit.
4 years and 3 months before impact:
Ophelia reaches Saturn's orbit.
3 years before impact:
Ophelia reaches Jupiter's orbit.
2 years before impact:
Ophelia enters the asteroid belt.
6 months before impact:
Ophelia exits the asteroid belt.
4 months before impact:
Ophelia reaches Mars's orbit.
3 months and 15 days before impact:
Ophelia enters Earth's gravatational pull.
3 months before impact:
Ophelia passes the Moon.
2 months before impact:
Ophelia enters the upper boundary of the exosphere.
7 weeks before impact:
Ophelia reaches the lower boundary of the exosphere.
6 weeks before impact:
Ophelia enters the thermosphere.
5 weeks before impact:
Ophelia destroys the International Space Station.
1 month before impact:
Ophelia enters the mesosphere.
4 weeks before impact:
Ophelia is now 100 km above the Earth.
25 days before impact:
Ophelia is now 90 km above the Earth.
3 weeks before impact:
Ophelia enters the stratosphere.
20 days before impact:
Ophelia downs planes in the statosphere.
15 days before impact:
Ophelia is now 25 km in the atmosphere.
2 weeks before impact:
Ophelia enters the lower boundary of the stratosphere.
10 days before impact:
Ophelia enters the troposphere.
8 days before impact:
Five foot waves are recorded in the Indian Ocean.
1 week before impact:
Ophelia is now just 4 km in the air.
5 days before impact:
The wave heights reach 10 feet.
4 days before impact:
Ophelia is 3 km high.
3 days before impact:
30 foot waves are being recorded.
1 day before impact:
Ophelia is now 2 km in the atmosphere.
12 hours before impact:
80 foot waves form.
4 hours before impact:
A megatsunami, 500 feet high, formed in the Indian Ocean.
1 hour before impact:
Ophelia is now 1 km high.
45 minutes before impact:
Evacuatons begin on Madagascar, Australia, India, the Maldives, and Indonesia.
30 minutes before impact:
Ophelia enters the ocean.
IMPACT MOMENT:
Ophelia slams into the Earth at 447 miles per hour.
1 second after impact"
A megatsunami, a half mile high, races at 800 mph in all directions.
2 seconds after impact:
An earthquake with a Richter scale magnitude of 15.5 has its epicenter near Perh, Australia.
3 seconds after impact:
Vibrations from the impact reach as far way as France and Hawaii.
4 seconds after impact:
The megatsunami is 600 miles east of Madagascar.
5 seconds after impact:
Water recedes into the ocean on the coastline.
10 seconds after impact:
The megatsunami is located 900 miles west of Perth and 400 miles east of Madagascar.
25 seconds after impact:
Sirens blare all over Madagascar, the Maldives, and Australia as the megatsunami makes its arrival.
30 seconds after impact:
Boats in the Indian Ocean capsize.
1 minute after impact:
The tsunami reaches Madagascar, destroying and submerging 98% of the island.
64 seconds after impact:
The tsunami continues into Africa, flooding everything 500 miles inland,
75 seconds after impact:
The tsunami devestates Western Australia.
80 seconds after impact:
Indonesia gets the full blast of the now 300 foot tsunami, submerging 84% of the islands.
90 seconds after impact:
The Maldives are submerged.
2 minutes after impact:
Sri Lanka is gone.
3 minutes after impact:
The tsunami finally dissipates, but not after submerging all coastlines.
1 day after impact:
Pluto hits Earth. (TBC)