{"id":905237,"date":"2026-05-12T07:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/scientists-say-dantes-inferno-described-an-asteroid-impact-500-years-before-modern-science\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T07:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:22:14","slug":"scientists-say-dantes-inferno-described-an-asteroid-impact-500-years-before-modern-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/scientists-say-dantes-inferno-described-an-asteroid-impact-500-years-before-modern-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists say Dante\u2019s Inferno described an asteroid impact 500 years before modern science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Dante\u2019s Inferno may have been far more than a religious epic. New research argues that the 14th-century poet essentially imagined a catastrophic asteroid impact centuries before modern science understood meteors. In this interpretation, Satan crashes into Earth like a giant cosmic object, blasting through the Southern Hemisphere and reshaping the planet itself \u2014 carving out the circles of Hell while forcing up Mount Purgatory on the opposite side of the globe&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2026\/05\/260510234658.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Erasmo Lanz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Dante\u2019s Inferno may have been far more than a religious epic. New research argues that the 14th-century poet essentially imagined a catastrophic asteroid impact centuries before modern science understood meteors. In this interpretation, Satan crashes into Earth like a giant cosmic object, blasting through the Southern Hemisphere and reshaping the planet itself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":905238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149447,536,3807],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-905237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dantes","8":"category-science-nature","9":"category-scientists"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}