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Impact may refer to:
In science :
- Impact (mechanics), a high force or shock (mechanics) over a short time period
- Impact crater, a meteor crater caused by an impact event
- Impact event, the collision of a meteoroid, asteroid or comet with Earth
- Impact factor, a measure of the citations to a science or social science journal
In computing:
- IMPACT (computer graphics), a computer graphics architecture for Silicon Graphics computer workstations
- Impact Finite Element Program, an open source finite element program
In film, television, and radio:
- Impact, BBC World News weekday programme presented by Mishal Husain or Lyse Doucet.
- Impact (1949 film), a 1949 film noir starring Brian Donlevy and Ella Raines
- Impact (TV mini-series), a 2008 television mini-series starring Natasha Henstridge and David James Elliott
- Impact Wrestling, the primary weekly television program of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
In literature:
- Bath Impact, the student newspaper for the University of Bath Students' Union, England
- Impact (action entertainment magazine), a monthly action entertainment magazine that focus on Asian action cinema and anime
- Impact (EC Comics), a 1955 EC Comics comic book
- Impact (Image Comics), an Image Comics comic book character
- Impact (novel), a 2010 novel by Douglas Preston
- Impact (student magazine), a student magazine for the University of Nottingham, England
- Impact Comics, a DC Comics imprint
- Impact Press, an Orlando, Florida-based magazine
In music:
- Impact Records, an American record label
Organizations:
- IMPACT (organisation), a charitable organization focusing on public and preventative interventions to stop preventable disability
- Impact! Miniatures, a company producing 28mm wargaming figures
- International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats
- Irish Municipal, Public and Civil Trade Union
In sports:
- Montreal Impact, a soccer (football) team in Major League Soccer, the top tier of North American professional soccer
- Montreal Impact (1992–2011), predecessor to the above team, that played in several second-level North American leagues during its history
Other:
- Impact (typeface), a sans-serif typeface
- Impact, Texas, a town in Taylor County, Texas, USA
See also [link]
- All pages beginning with "Impact"
- All pages with titles containing "Impact"
- Impaction, medical term used to describe several different types of blockage
- Influence (disambiguation)
- Effect (disambiguation)
- Collision (disambiguation)
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Impact (comics)
Impact, in comics, can refer to:
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Impact (novel)
Impact is a science fiction thriller novel by American writer Douglas Preston, published on January 5, 2010 by Forge Books. The novel is the third book in the Wyman Ford series. The book was reviewed on All Things Considered in February 2010.
Plot summary
Ex-CIA agent Wyman Ford returns to Cambodia to investigate the source of radioactive gemstones and uncovers an unusual impact crater. A young woman on the other side of the world photographs a meteoroid's passage in the atmosphere with her telescope and deduces that it must have struck on one of the islands just offshore from Round Pond, Maine. A NASA scientist analyzing data from the Mars Mapping Orbiter (MMO) spots unusual spikes in gamma ray activity. These threads intersect with discovery of an alien device that has apparently been on Deimos, one of the two moons of Mars, for at least 100 million years. Something has caused it to activate and fire a strangelet at Earth, setting off the events in the novel.
Timeline
The events in this novel follow those of The Codex, Tyrannosaur Canyon, and Blasphemy. As such, Wyman Ford is the protagonist once again (having appeared in Tyrannosaur Canyon and Blasphemy), and the character of Stanton Lockwood III (who debuted in Blasphemy) also returns.
Cato
Cato may refer to:
Literature
Organizations
People
- Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus, son of Cato the Elder by his first wife Licinia, jurist
- Marcus Porcius Cato, son of Cato Licinianus, consul 118 BC, died in Africa in the same year
- Gaius Porcius Cato, son of Cato Licinianus, consul 114 BC
- Marcus Porcius Cato Salonianus, son of Cato the Elder by his second wife Salonia, (born 154 BC, when his father had completed his eightieth year)
- Marcus Porcius Cato, son of Cato Salonianus and father of Cato the Younger
- Cato the Younger "Cato of Utica" or "Cato Minor" (Marcus Porcius Catō Uticēnsis 95 BC–46 BC), politician and statesman in the late Roman Republic, remembered for his lengthy conflict with Gaius Julius Caesar, and moral integrity
- Marcus Porcius Cato (II), son of Cato the Younger, fell at the Battle of Philippi, 42 BC
- Cato the Younger "Cato of Utica" or "Cato Minor" (Marcus Porcius Catō Uticēnsis 95 BC–46 BC), politician and statesman in the late Roman Republic, remembered for his lengthy conflict with Gaius Julius Caesar, and moral integrity
- Lucius Porcius Cato, son of Cato Salonianus, consul 89 BC, killed during the Social War (91–88 BC)
- Marcus Porcius Cato, son of Cato Salonianus and father of Cato the Younger
List of The Hunger Games characters
The following is a list of characters in The Hunger Games trilogy, a series of young adult science fiction novels by Suzanne Collins that were later adapted into a series of four feature films.
Main characters
Cato (1800 ship)
Cato was launched at Stockton in 1800 and registered in London to Reeve & Green. She was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, in 1804.
Cato arrived in Port Jackson, New South Wales, from England on 9 March 1803, carrying stores.
On 10 August 1803, Cato left Sydney in the company of the ships HMS Porpoise and Bridgewater, all bound for Canton. On 17 August the three ships got caught near a sandbank, 157 miles north and 51 miles east of Sandy Cape.
With shrinking leeway, both Cato and Porpoise grounded. Bridgewater sailed on, despite knowing that the other two vessels had come to grief. The crew and passengers of the wrecked vessels were able to land on a sandbank as both their ships broke up.
This sandbank become known as Wreck Reefs and is located in the southern part of the Coral Sea Islands approximately 450 km (280 mi) East Nor East of Gladstone, Queensland or 250 km (155 mi) east of the Swain reefs complex. They form a narrow chain of reefs with small cays that extends for around 25 km (16 mi) in a west to east line.
