In Popular Culture
Impact winters (along with nuclear and volcanic winters) are often the subject of science fiction novels and short stories.
In the episode "Impact Winter" of the popular television show The West Wing, NASA sights a large asteroid that could possibly collide with Earth. President Bartlet recounts the worst case scenario, saying "If the asteroid hits, a shower of burning rock rains down on those woods and starts a fire that burns, that shrouds the hemisphere in a blanket of soot and ash that blocks out the sun for weeks. 'Impact winter', they call it."
The Doctor Who audio drama Blood of the Daleks is set on a human colony world which has suffered an asteroid strike and is undergoing an impact winter.
The premise of the video game Midwinter revolves around the entire planet being covered in snow after a meteorite strike, resulting in an impact winter.
In Chrono Trigger, the impact of Lavos in 65,000,000 BC caused an impact winter that apparently lasted for millions of years.
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