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How Dante's Inferno modeled a planetary impact 500 years before modern science

How Dante's Inferno modeled a planetary impact 500 years before modern science
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New research reveals that Dante Alighieri's Inferno wasn't just a masterpiece of literature: it was a gedankenexperiment in impact physics. From multi-ring craters to shockwaves that reshaped the globe, discover how a 14th-century poet modeled a planetary impact 500 years before the birth of modern meteoritics.

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