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Impact event

An impact event is a collision between astronomical objects causing measurable effects. Impact events have been found to regularly occur in planetary systems, though the most frequent involve asteroids, comets or meteoroids and have minimal effect. When large objects impact terrestrial planets such as the Earth, there can be significant physical and…

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Impacts and the Earth

Elsewhere in the Solar System

Extrasolar impacts

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Impact event

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Triples141
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Impact event

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has impact · 35
Impact event → Aitken, Chicxulub, Cretaceous, Earth, Earth's, Engelier, Gerin, Hellas Planitia, Herschel, Iapetus, Impact, Late Heavy Bombardment, Mamaldi, Mars, Mercury's Caloris Basin, Mimas, Models, Moon, Notable, Odysseus
has effect · 32
Impact event → Alvarez, Americans, An, April, Bedout High, Berkeley, California, Cretaceous, Discover, Earth, Earth's, Frank Asaro, From, Helen, In, Iridium, Luis Alvarez, Michael, Multidirectionally, One
see also · 30
Impact event → Asteroid, Atmospheric, Database, Earth, EarthGlobal, EarthList, EarthMeteor, EarthNear-Earth, EarthNear-Earth Object Camera, EarthTorino, Effects, Efforts, Foundation, Hazardous, Heavy Bombardment, Hypothesized, Hypothetical, Impact Database, Large, Logarithmic
related to Current response status · 17
Impact event → According, Also, America, B612 Foundation, Big Questions, Brief Answers, In April, In June, It's, NASA, National Near-Earth Object Preparedness, Stephen Hawking, Strategy Action Plan, Technology Council, The, United States Congress, US National Science
related to Geological significance · 5
Impact event → Earth, Earth's, Impact, Impacts, The Moon's
is a · 1
Impact event → collision between astronomical objects causing measurable effects

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Impact eventis acollision between astronomical objects causing measurable effects0.90text
the Earthinstance ofWhen large objects impact terrestrial planets0.80text
there can be significant physicalinstance ofWhen large objects impact terrestrial planets0.80text
biospheric consequencesinstance ofWhen large objects impact terrestrial planets0.80text
as the impacting body is usually traveling at several kilometres per secondinstance ofWhen large objects impact terrestrial planets0.80text
asteroid sizeinstance ofThe most probable impact angle is 45 degrees.Impact conditions0.80text
speedinstance ofThe most probable impact angle is 45 degrees.Impact conditions0.80text
but also densityinstance ofThe most probable impact angle is 45 degrees.Impact conditions0.80text
impact angle determine the kinetic energy released in an impact eventinstance ofThe most probable impact angle is 45 degrees.Impact conditions0.80text
Shoemaker demonstrated that impact cratering was by far the most widespread geological process at work on the Solar System's solid bodiesinstance ofThe findings of late 20th-century space exploration and the work of scientists0.80text
Engelierinstance ofImpact craters on the moons of Saturn0.80text
Gerin on Iapetusinstance ofImpact craters on the moons of Saturn0.80text

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