Impact event

Quality:

Impact event - collision of two astronomical objects with measurable effects. Article “Impact event” in Simple English Wikipedia has 44.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 19 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Impact event”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1499 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 40 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7467 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1880 in August 2018
• Global: #1510 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2515 in January 2017
• Global: #4985 in February 2013

There are 34 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Impact event		92.7065
2	Portuguese (pt) Evento de impacto		90.7289
3	Chinese (zh) 撞擊事件		76.8506
4	Danish (da) Meteoritnedslag		60.073
5	Finnish (fi) Impakti		54.1025
6	French (fr) Impact cosmique		47.6609
7	Italian (it) Impatto astronomico		47.4596
8	Simple English (simple) Impact event		44.2579
9	Czech (cs) Impakt astronomického tělesa		43.005
10	Slovak (sk) Impakt astronomického telesa		42.0601

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Impact event		6 131 958
2	Japanese (ja) 天体衝突		1 058 747
3	German (de) Impakt		845 392
4	Russian (ru) Импактное событие		427 772
5	Italian (it) Impatto astronomico		329 099
6	Chinese (zh) 撞擊事件		320 993
7	Portuguese (pt) Evento de impacto		246 848
8	French (fr) Impact cosmique		223 060
9	Polish (pl) Katastrofa kosmiczna		184 909
10	Finnish (fi) Impakti		122 352

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Impact event		12 665
2	Japanese (ja) 天体衝突		2 333
3	Chinese (zh) 撞擊事件		2 327
4	German (de) Impakt		1 381
5	Russian (ru) Импактное событие		1 150
6	French (fr) Impact cosmique		468
7	Italian (it) Impatto astronomico		447
8	Portuguese (pt) Evento de impacto		243
9	Polish (pl) Katastrofa kosmiczna		207
10	Spanish (es) Impacto astronómico		177

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Impact event		632
2	German (de) Impakt		187
3	French (fr) Impact cosmique		93
4	Italian (it) Impatto astronomico		81
5	Finnish (fi) Impakti		73
6	Russian (ru) Импактное событие		52
7	Japanese (ja) 天体衝突		35
8	Dutch (nl) Inslagproces		34
9	Chinese (zh) 撞擊事件		32
10	Spanish (es) Impacto astronómico		30

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Impact event		3
2	German (de) Impakt		2
3	Arabic (ar) اصطدام (علم الفلك)		1
4	French (fr) Impact cosmique		1
5	Armenian (hy) Իմպակտ իրադարձություն		1
6	Russian (ru) Импактное событие		1
7	Chinese (zh) 撞擊事件		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Toqquşma hadisəsi		0
9	Belarusian (be) Імпактная падзея		0
10	Catalan (ca) Impacte astronòmic		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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