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Death Star destroys Alderaan (ANH)
« on: January 13, 2022, 10:27:57 am »


Okay, so the new maximum size for stations is 200 feet (61 meters). I will be scaling off that.

The Death Star is 160 kilometers in diameter. So it's 800 times bigger than the RW version.

Earth's diameter (approximation for Alderaan) divided by 800 equals roughly 16 kilometers. A 16-kilometer sphere, with a density of 5520 kg/m3, would weigh about 11838744 kg. According to OmniCalculator, it would also have a puny escape velocity of 0.01887 m/s. Therefore, the minimum energy to blow up this "planet" in space is roughly 2107.75 joules.

The maximum value (sufficient to propel the debris at about five planetary diameters per second) is roughly 75,768 TJ.
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