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A collision between the Earth and a comet

by

Space Channel/Novapix

Reference

a-com99-01001

Date

2006-10-21

The impacting nucleus has landed in the ocean. There is an atmospheric shockwave, a massive tsunami and a hot, violent blast. Fragments of the comet's coma continue to fall. The Chicxulub Impact Event, some 65 million years ago may have looked something like this.