AFP A paper, published in the journal Scientific Reports this week, pushes back against an older theory that claims the object was a fragment of an asteroid that came from our solar system s Main Belt.
Their analysis suggests it was a comet that originated in a region of icy debris on the edge of the solar system, that Jupiter was responsible for it crashing into our planet, and that we can expect similar impacts every 250 million to 750 million years.
The duo’s paper, published in the journal
Scientific Reports this week, pushes back against an older theory that claims the object was a fragment of an asteroid that came from our solar system’s Main Belt.
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Étude: L extinction des dinosaures causée par une comète et non un astéroïde
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Woher kam das Objekt, das die Dinosaurier auslöschte?
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Científicos habrían detectado de dónde provino el objeto espacial que acabó con los dinosaurios
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