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Breakup of a long-period comet as the origin of the dinosaur extinction
The origin of the Chicxulub impactor, which is attributed as the cause of the K/T mass extinction event, is an unsolved puzzle. The background impact rates of main-belt asteroids and long-period comets have been previously dismissed as being too low to explain the Chicxulub impact event. Here, we sh...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7884440/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33589634 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-82320-2 |