Impact winter
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impact-winter-279-7631777
title:
Impact winter
text:
An impact winter is a hypothesized period of prolonged cold weather due to the impact of a large asteroid or comet on the Earth's surface. If an asteroid were to strike land or a shallow body of water, it would eject an enormous amount of dust, ash, and other material into the atmosphere, blocking the radiation from the Sun. This would cause the global temperature to decrease drastically. If an asteroid or comet with the diameter of about 5 km (3.1 mi) or more were to hit in a large deep body of
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Hypothesized climate effects due to an asteroid or comet impact on Earth
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_winter
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date modified:
2024-03-17T11:46:50Z
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