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This Neal.Fun Website Simulates an Asteroid Impact; You Can Use It on Your Town! Here's How
The first page it created is an online tool that allows you to see the babies born in real-time in every country.
After that, Neal.Fun launched various online tools, such as websites for designing the next iPhone, seeing what Earth looked like ten years ago, etc.
Now, Neal.Fun decided to create an asteroid simulator. You can even use it to check what will happen to your home town.
This Neal.Fun Website Simulates an Asteroid Impact
Neal Agarwal, the web developer who created the Neal.Fun website, shared how he created the new Neal.Fun Asteroid Launcher page.
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This image mosaic of asteroid 253 Mathilde releaseed by NASA 30 June is constructed from four images acquired by the NEAR spacecraft on 27 June. The images were taken from a distance of 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) with sunlight coming from the upper right.
"The project took about two months in total. The first month was spent mostly on research and finding the right equations," said Agarwal via News Nation.
He added that he designed the website and the coding in the second.
If you are wondering if the asteroid impact simulator is accurate, Neal said that he relied on previous asteroid impact studies.
One of these is the Imperial College London's Earth Impacts Effects Program.
Agarwal also used one of the studies of NASA.
How to Use Neal.Fun Asteroid Launcher
To use the new website, you can visit the official Neal.Fun and look for the Asteroid launcher, or you can click here.
Once you are on the Neal.Fun Asteroid Launcher website, you will see the world map.
On the right side of your screen, you will see a sidebar for the asteroid.
You can click the arrows to choose the space rock you want to simulate; gold, iron, stone, carbon asteroid, and comet.
In the lower part, you can adjust the asteroid's diameter, speed, and impact angle. Once you are done, use the map to find your town or preferred place.
After that, click the "Launch Asteroid" button. Then, the asteroid impact results will be provided.
These include the fireball's distance, the shock wave's decibel, wind speed, as well as the earthquake's magnitude.
As new advanced technologies arrive, NASA and other space experts can make astounding asteroid discoveries.
These include the recent study about a dinosaur-killing asteroid, which is believed to have caused the greatest tsunami on Earth.
We also reported that an asteroid impact previously happened in Canada.
For more news updates about asteroids and other space objects, keep your tabs open here at TechTimes.
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