"realistic" asteroid impact animations

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"realistic" asteroid impact animations

Post #1by selden » 01.07.2006, 18:56

As a replacement for the Japanese anime, this links to a Web site that contains more serious attempts to simulate major asteroid impacts and other astronomical events. Not surprisingly, the animations are not as dramatic as the anime version.

http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~shane/movies/
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Post #2by MKruer » 01.07.2006, 22:40

If only they could get rid of the atmosphere that would greatly reduce the after effects of the impact.


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