'Impact: Earth!' simulator shows effects of asteroid hit

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Purdue University has unveiled ''Impact: Earth!'' a new website that allows anyone to calculate the potential damage a comet or asteroid would cause if it hit the Earth.
The interactive website is scientifically accurate enough to be used by homeland security and NASA, but user-friendly and visual enough for elementary school students, said Jay Melosh, the distinguished professor of earth and atmospheric sciences and physics at Purdue who led the creation of the impact effects calculator.
http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/general/2010/101103MeloshImpactEarth.html

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  • @dqchannel No, i don't bealive in that, i just think space know that there are BIGEST dueches on earth so it just want to get rid of them all :P THANK YOU OH GREAT SPACE XD!!!!!!!!

  • @medicinka1234 because it just awesome

  • Why does EVERYTIHNG hit in America ??

  • @rizer912 because it happened before we were born, probably.

  • if this has happened before, how are we still standing here?

  • big waste of time ..... the hell was i thinken

  • This simulator is bullshit.

  • sucks

    

  • wow that would have hit my house

  • tried it, it didn`t showed any visual efects

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