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Satan
Coverage of Satan in the Nexus archive.
- Scientists say Dante’s Inferno described an asteroid impact 500 years before modern science
Scientists argue that Dante's Inferno describes a catastrophic asteroid impact, with Satan crashing into Earth and reshaping the planet. This interpretation suggests that Dante imagined this event centuries before modern science understood meteors. The research reinterprets the 14th-century poem as a description of a cosmic event.