They collected information on the composition of the asteroids from this family and found many similarities to the samples with the impact that occurred on Earth.doi:10.1016/S0262-4079(07)62250-7Reavill, C.Jenner, P.Leigh, N.Marsden, C.D....
The trajectory of the asteroid thought to have killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was just right to cause maximum damage. A new study of Chicxulub crater in Mexico, wherethe asteroidstruck, has revealed that the angle and speed of the impact were probably in the perfect ra...
Dust might have been responsible for the deadly dinosaur-killing global winter that came after an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, finds a study published on 30 October in Nature Geoscience1. Access options Access through your institution Access Nature and 54 other Nature ...
The popular belief is that an asteroid impact caused the mass extinction at the K-Pg (formerly K-T) boundary 66 million years ago. This is the mass extinction that killed off the non-avian dinosaurs along with 75% of species on Earth. However, in reality there is a raging scientific deb...
“It gives a moment by moment story of what happens right after impact and you end up getting such a rich resource for scientific investigation.” Related articleThe asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs struck in springtime Many of the latest discoveries revealed in the documentary haven’t been be...
Asteroid that created Chicxulub crater. Photo: NASA On a spring day 66 million years ago, anasteroid12 kilometers wide hitMexico'sYucatan Peninsula, leading to anextinctionthat killed off about three-quarters of Earth'sspecies, including thedinosaurs. The event made the way formammalsto become ...
The massive asteroid that slammed into Earth some 66 million years ago is often—and understandably—considered a vicious killer. But new research into the cosmic effects of the impact suggest quite the opposite. That deadly asteroidmight have actually blasted life throughout the solar system. ...
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There are two main reasons crocodiles survived the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. First, crocodiles can live for a very long time without food. Second, they lived in places that were the least affected when the asteroid hit Earth.
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