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Austria Poster Connects Dante's Inferno to Asteroid Impacts

5/13/2026

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Austria hosted Professor Timothy Burbery’s EGU 2026 Vienna poster that links Dante’s Inferno to an asteroid impact, describing Satan’s fall as a crater that forms the Mountain of Purgatory.
He likens Satan’s elongated shape to ‘Oumuamua, detected in 2017, and his intact core to the Hoba meteorite in Namibia.
He cites the 1794 Chladni hypothesis, the 66 million-year-old Chicxulub impact, and NASA’s 2022 DART mission that struck Dimorphos to demonstrate asteroid-deflection.

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Austria hosted Professor Timothy Burbery’s EGU 2026 Vienna poster that links Dante’s Inferno to an asteroid impact, describing Satan’s fall as a crater that forms the Mountain of Purgatory.
He likens Satan’s elongated shape to ‘Oumuamua, detected in 2017, and his intact core to the Hoba meteorite in Namibia.
He cites the 1794 Chladni hypothesis, the 66 million-year-old Chicxulub impact, and NASA’s 2022 DART mission that struck Dimorphos to demonstrate asteroid-deflection.