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If an asteroid hits one of our oceans — water makes up for 70 percent of our planet’s surface and is therefore a more likely scenario — the scope of the impact is poorly understood.
Determined to better understand the realities of a massive impact in the ocean, researchers showcased a dramatic 3-D modeling results of an ocean-impacting asteroid, at the American Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting in San Francisco last week.Never before has an impact scenario like this been studied in such detail…