<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear all, </div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> this Wednesday Astro Journal club starts at <b class="">3:15 p.m</b>. in the seminar room F-201 of the Physics Department. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Presenter: Stefan Cikota, mag. phys.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Title: Visualization and Analysis of Threats from Asteroid Ocean Impacts</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Authors: J.M. Patchett et al. (2016)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Abstract: </div><div class=""><div class="">An asteroid colliding with earth can have grave consequences. An impact in the ocean has complex effects as the kinetic energy of the asteroid is transferred to the water, potentially causing a tsunami or other distant effect. Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are using the xRage simulation code on high performance computing (HPC) systems to understand the range of possible behaviors of an asteroid impacting the ocean. By running ensembles of large scale 3D simulations, scientists can study a set of potential factors for asteroid-generated tsunamis (AGTs) such as angle of impact, asteroid mass and air burst elevation. These studies help scientists understand the consequences of asteroid impacts such as water dispersement into the atmosphere, which can impact the global climate, or tsunami creation, which can place population centers at risk. The results of these simulations will support NASA’s Office of Planetary Defense in deciding how to best track near-Earth objects (NEOs).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Link to paper: <a href="http://datascience.dsscale.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2016/09/VisualizationAndAnalysisOfThreatsFromAsteroidOceanImpacts.pdf" class="">http://datascience.dsscale.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2016/09/VisualizationAndAnalysisOfThreatsFromAsteroidOceanImpacts.pdf</a></div><div class=""> </div></div><div class="">If you have recently read interesting astrophysics paper you would like to present, please contact me via e-mail: <a href="mailto:lceraj@phy.hr" class="">lceraj@phy.hr</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">See you on Wednesday.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Lana</div></div></body></html>