This app tells you what would happen if an asteroid hit your city

With this new web app, you can see what the impact would be if an asteroid hit any part of the Earth. Created by his programmer Neal Agarwal. He created ‘The Deep Sea’, an app that allows users to visualize what kinds of creatures they can encounter at different depths of the ocean, and other online apps such as ‘Spend Bill Gates’ Money’. did. The user visualizes how much money billionaire Bill Gates has.

How to use asteroid launcher

All you need to do to use Asteroid Launcher is visit the site neal.fun/asteroid-launcher. When you load the web app, you’ll see a world map and a side panel where you can select asteroid properties.

After choosing where the asteroid will hit, you can select asteroid properties such as size, composition, velocity, and impact angle. After that, you need to press the “Launch Asteroid” button. Once you do this, the app will measure the outcome of the asteroid impact.

Select your target location and asteroid properties, and the app will tell you about the potential consequences of an asteroid impact. (Image credit: Asteroid Lancer/Screenshot)

For example, a simulated impact of an 870-meter-wide asteroid hitting New Delhi at a velocity of 34 kilometers per second and at an angle of 45 degrees would produce an impact equivalent to 254 gigatons of TNT, creating a 22-kilometre-wide crater.

As you play with the app, you may worry about the possibility of an asteroid hitting the Earth and what the consequences will be, but now that scientists have ruled out the possibility of an asteroid posing a threat to the Earth, it won’t be for another 100 years. Don’t worry. Earth in the next 100 years.

And if that happens, mitigation strategies may already be in place. In September 2022, NASA successfully crashed her DART spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos. This is the first demonstration of planetary defense technology against asteroids.