66 million years ago, a huge object from space slammed into Earth and gave the dinsoaurs a really, really bad day.
... and now we know what it was: an asteroid, not a comet, and it came from the outer solar system.
https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/dinosaur-killer-asteroid-came-deep-space-outer-solar-system
Phil Plait /
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2024-08-26 15:17:35
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