8-May-2026
New research proposes #Dante’s Inferno modelled a planetary #impact 500 years before modern #science!

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1126757

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New research proposes Dante’s Inferno modelled a planetary impact 500 years before modern science!

What if Dante’s Inferno wasn’t just poetry? New research suggests the 14th-century epic may have quietly mapped the mechanics of a planetary impact, centuries before modern meteoritics existed.

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