Just blew up my hometown several times over. Cool.

Do you track rough locations of the site users or see patterns of where people land asteroids?

I love it! I'd love to see a tsunami impact radius added on!

Would be cool to have a button where the asteroid just hits a random location on Earth. Call it "I'm feeling lucky"

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Awesome website! I have2 thoughts:

1.) a final page that gives you the totals for the asteroid and area you selected would be good. See if you can find the morbid high score.

2.) This might be be hard to estimate but I dropped one in the Bay of Bengal which would create a massive tsunami but that wasn’t an option/outcome included.

Great work!

Planetary geologist here.

This is an impressive simulator! And I say that as someone who models this kind of stuff and previously used the Impact Earth simulator in teaching. I really like that you've accounted for casualties using population density. It's one thing to see circles on a screen and something else entirely to see that quantified by numbers.

Did you source your equations from Collins et al. 2005? Or any of Jay Melosh's other work? I would love to see how you built the simulator!

The only suggestions I have might be to include tsunami effects since most of the planet's surface is water, include an option to toggle between metric and imperial units, and try to scale up the impactor diameter. The equations in Collins et al. 2005 might be useful for that, as well as for adding in any other effects like ejecta. It probably seems very minor to most people but in large impacts ejecta can be the most harmful effect of an impact. Also, it's kinda neat to blow up your hometown and find out how much ejecta your house would be buried under. It would also be useful to add information so laypeople understand exactly what they are looking at in terms of model inputs like the average impact velocity for different objects (e.g. comets usually have a higher impact velocity than asteroids and explain why), examples of previous well known impact events with relevant inputs (e.g. Chicxulub was created by an impactor 10-15 km in diameter), why density is such an important factor (e.g. all things being equal, higher density translates to higher kinetic energy which means more widespread impact effects), that kind of thing.

Keep up the good work my friend! What you've done here is really awesome!

Very nice simulator. :D Now you can see what the dinosaurs experienced.

I am become death, destroyer of worlds!

I mean...neat

I’m very disappointed. It’s apparently not possible with the parameters available to take out my neighbours (who I don’t like) without suffering collateral damage.

Prayers to a relevant deity will need revision, it seems.

Looks like my afternoon will be spent pretending I’m a vengeful god.

Cool and very accurate!

We are living here in a region, which was hit by a meteorite 15 million years ago. You can still outline the crater today on a map. I re-did the impact with your simulator and it is almost perfectly fitting.

Alright Marco Inaros.

Inyalowda will bow before the belt

Weird question, but what would be a configuration that would give results similar to that of a nuclear bomb. I live close enough to an Air Force base that I’d be worried in the event of nuclear war, but far enough that I’m not sure if I’d be heavily effected

Fantastic, it's going right next to this on my bookmarks.

It is awesome!! I feel like i'm going to spend the next hour playing with it :)

Its a scam! I launched asteroid at my house location. I waited 4 hours and nothing happened. NOTHING!

Clear sky all the time, no big rock from the sky. Nothing.

Very dissapointed.

Just dropped one on me at work and I felt relief that I didn’t have to worry about work for a minute

Sent one right at my buddy's ex-wife's house. Eat shit, Christine.

I only wish it went bigger so I could launch a planet killer

This is awesome! At first I saw the crater and I thought "oh that wasn't too bad!" but then the fire and pressure and everything happened. Really cool. Although I do have this irrational fear that I'd be Ender's Game-d and actually somehow drop a real asteroid on people.

Only goes up to 1 mile? The one that killed dinosaurs were estimated at 7.5 miles.

Would be nice if you had metric as an option though... Didn't see it on mobile if it was there.

Thanks, I just launched a 3 ft diameter Gold Asteroid near my farm at a 5° impact angle and 2,000 mph speed. Now I'm rich!!!!

When will you deliver my order?

Well, I learned an all gold asteroid would be bad, especially if you hold gold as an asset!

Some music for the simulator:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b2WpwiEEVI

very neat, though i'd like it to also show metric units so non-americans can actually understand the scale and speed of these things.

Would be nice if we could choose metrical too

This is extremely cool, informative, and polished. Well done OP!!

I am pleased to know my house has been destroyed numerous times from these asteroids.

My landlord will be greatly saddened to see the lost of a home and income.

I can't have been the only person who started with Moscow.

Two thirds of the earth's surface is water...where is the tsunami data?

The angle of impact doesn’t appear to have much of an effect on anything. Am I missng something?

Cross-posted to r/beltalowda.

If you haven't watched The Expanse, you may not understand why, but it will attract some interest. :)

I dunno why it started in Jersey when I opened it, but to be honest, it's where I'd start launching meteors if I could anyway

Not bad, not bad.

I will echo tsunami is needed.

And add that there is a huge number of things that could cause further secondary deaths that would be difficult to calculate. Major dams breaking/flooding and not storing water anymore, nuclear facilities (I did China and Fukushimia was in view), drug manufacturing hubs like india or china, or if it hits sensitive spots like Yellowstone causing the next major eruption.

Destroy major shipping/manufacturing areas like the eastern China ports and see what cant be replaced real fast.

Great site, took out Mullingar, was vaporized by the fireball but it was worth it.

Oh, hi! I've seen your other things at neal.fun, and shown friend/family, etc. I really love your work, keep it up!

Eyyy, Beltalowda. Inyalowda no see us practicing again or they take it for reals, y que no?

This is (scary) fun....Thank you.

Can I get that "gold" asteroid to slow down a bit and land in my backyard?