{"id":205717,"date":"2025-02-06T08:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/asteroid-impact-simulation-reveals-climate-and-ecological-disruptions"},"modified":"2025-02-06T08:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:23:08","slug":"asteroid-impact-simulation-reveals-climate-and-ecological-disruptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/asteroid-impact-simulation-reveals-climate-and-ecological-disruptions","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid impact simulation reveals climate and ecological disruptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/asteroid-impact-simulation-reveals-climate-and-ecological-disruptions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new climate modeling study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adq5399\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Science Advances<\/i> by researchers from the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in South Korea presents a new scenario of how climate and life on our planet would change in response to a potential future strike of a medium-sized (~500 m) asteroid.<\/p>\n<p>The solar system is full of objects with near-Earth orbits. Most of them do not pose any threat to Earth, but some of them have been identified as objects of interest with non-negligible collision probabilities. Among them is the asteroid Bennu with a diameter of about 500 m, which\u2014according to recent studies\u2014has an estimated chance of 1 in 2700 of colliding with Earth in September 2182. This is similar to the probability of flipping a coin 11 times in a row with the same outcome.<\/p>\n<p>To determine the potential impacts of an asteroid strike on our climate system and on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/terrestrial+plants\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">terrestrial plants<\/a> and plankton in the ocean, researchers from the ICCP set out to simulate an idealized collision scenario with a medium-sized asteroid using a state-of-the-art climate model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new climate modeling study published in the journal Science Advances by researchers from the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in South Korea presents a new scenario of how climate and life on our planet would change in response to a potential future strike of a medium-sized (~500 m) asteroid. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,493,12,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-climatology","category-existential-risks","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}