SIMULATING GLOBAL CATASTROPHE
The effect of a kilometer-wide (0.6-mi.) comet impacting the Earth's atmosphere at a 45-deg. angle and hitting the Atlantic ocean was simulated last month at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N.M. The exercise, which was divided into 54 million zones and ran for 48 hr., was intended to help...
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