Craters produced by missile impacts

Craters produced by, missiles with oblique trajectories and kinetic energies between 2.1×1014 and 81×1014 ergs produce craters 2 to 10 meters across. The craters and their ejecta are typically bilaterally symmetrical about the plane of the trajectory. Crater dimensions are strongly dependent on target material and kinetic energy of the missile. Craters in wet targets are significantly larger than those in dry porous targets. Displaced masses of the craters are proportional to the kinetic energies of the missiles (adjusted for angles of impact) raised to a power larger than 1, and near 1.5. In a general sense, sizes of craters produced by missile impacts are about the same size as craters produced by chemical explosives with shallow depths of burial. The problem of equivalent scaled depth of burst for an impact crater is not resolved, however.