Some 66 million years ago, an errant asteroid wiped out three-quarters of all plant and animal species on Earth, most notably taking down the dinosaurs. That has long been the scientific consensus. However, three years ago, Harvard astronomers offered an alternative hypothesis: The culprit may have been a fragment of a comet thrown off-course by Jupiter's gravity and ripped apart by the Sun.



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Asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs originated beyond Jupiter

‘Chicxulub’ object seems to have come from out beyond Jupiter

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The Independent

Evgeny Lebedev

London

Greater London

England

Scientists finally find where the object that wiped out the dinosaurs came from

Roughly 66 million years ago, a huge object slammed into Earth, causing a mass extinction. Now, a group of scientists believes they've figured out what it was — and where it came from.

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Government of Canada

Canada

Scientists believe they now know where the dinosaur-killing asteroid came from

It was a turning point in the history of life on Earth. An asteroid an estimated 6-9 miles (10-15 km) wide slammed into Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago, triggering a global cataclysm that eradicated about three-quarters of the world's species and ended the age of dinosaurs.

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WASHINGTON : It was a turning point in the history of life on Earth. An asteroid an estimated 6-9 miles (10-15 km) wide slammed into Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago, triggering a global cataclysm that eradicated about three-quarters of the world's species and ended the age of dinosaurs.The

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Government of Singapore

Singapore

The asteroid struck the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, creating the Chicxulub crater, a 112-mile-wide, 12-mile-deep scar.

Indian Express

Viveck Goenka

India

Asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs originated beyond Jupiter, study finds

The apocalyptic asteroid is thought to have come from beyond Jupiter in our outer solar system.

Newsweek

IBT Media

United States

Dinosaur-killing asteroid's "distinct" origins revealed

The deposits left by the asteroid impact at Chicxulub, Mexico, are similar to other asteroids from the outer solar system.

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Red Ventures

New York

Scientists Believe They Now Know Where the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Came From

This new insight into the asteroid that crashed in Chicxulub, in the current Mexican peninsula of Yucatan, should make it possible to better understand the history of celestial objects that hit Earth.

Ce nouvel éclairage sur l'astéroïde s'étant écrasé à Chicxulub, dans l'actuelle péninsule mexicaine du Yucatan, doit permettre de mieux comprendre l'histoire des objets célestes ayant frappé la Terre.

L'astéroïde ayant éradiqué les dinosaures s'est formé au-delà de Jupiter

Le Figaro

Dassault Group

Paris

Île-de-France

France

The asteroid that eradicated the dinosaurs was formed beyond Jupiter

“There is now very little doubt as to its origin”, assures one of the fifteen researchers who studied the object that fell in the Chicxulub region of Mexico 66 million years ago. Even if they had our current abilities, reptiles would have had to...

« Il y a maintenant bien peu de doutes quant à son origine », assure l’un des quinze chercheurs qui se sont penchés sur l’objet tombé dans la région de Chicxulub, au Mexique, il y a 66 millions d’années. Même s’ils avaient disposé de nos capacités actuelles, les reptiles auraient d...

Un vieux mystère résolu : on sait maintenant d’où venait l’astéroïde qui a anéanti les dinosaures

Le Parisien

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An old mystery solved: we now know where the asteroid that destroyed the dinosaurs came from

The object that hit Earth 66 million years ago and ended the dinosaurs was indeed an asteroid. For a long time, there was doubt whether it was an asteroid or a comet.

Het object dat 66 miljoen jaar geleden insloeg op de aarde en een einde maakte aan de dinosaurussen, was wel degelijk een asteroïde. Lange tijd was er twijfel of het nu om een asteroïde of komeet ging.

An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, not a comet, new study finds

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