This Asteroid Launcher simulator lets you destroy your hometown — or anywhere else

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This new asteroid impact simulator makes it easy to crash space rocks of all sizes into Earth. What fun!

This image shows the effects of a 1600-foot asteroid hitting the Space.com offices in New York City, creating a 5.8-mile crater and a fireball nearly 9 miles across.larger than 0.6 miles across, in Earth’s orbital neighborhood. Fortunately, it’s rare that any will pass close enough to pose a real threat.

There is more than one way an asteroid impact can kill. Asteroid Launcher captures several of them: not just the size of the crater, but that of the fireball, the shockwave, the destructive winds and the earthquake that would all spread from impact., scheduled to pass Earth in 2029, right atop downtown Los Angeles.

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