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A collision between the Earth and a comet

author: Space Channel/Novapix

reference: a-com99-01001

Image Size 300 DPI: 38 * 21 cm

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.

Keywords for this photo:

3D - ASTRONOMY - CHICXULUB - COLLISION - COMET - EARTH - ILLUSTRATION - IMPACT -