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First known Terrestrial Impact of a Binary Asteroid from a Main Belt Breakup Event

Approximately 470 million years ago one of the largest cosmic catastrophes occurred in our solar system since the accretion of the planets. A 200-km large asteroid was disrupted by a collision in the Main Asteroid Belt, which spawned fragments into Earth crossing orbits. This had tremendous conseque...

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Autores principales: Ormö, Jens, Sturkell, Erik, Alwmark, Carl, Melosh, Jay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5381370/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25340551
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep06724