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DANGER:  Possible Threats to our Very Existence!?

Solar System Collisions

SOLAR SYSTEM COLLISIONS: Send an asteroid or comet hurtling 
toward your favorite planet!

Terrestrial Impact Craters

Terrestrial Impact Craters:
A  page from the Views of the Solar System site.

3D Comet Impact Simulations

 3D Comet Impact Simulations, from Sandia National Laboratories. Requires MPEG movie players.

Planetary Society NEO Page Near-Earth Objects Page

New Scale Invented to Judge Impact Hazards

 

11/04/2007