Breakup of a long-period comet as the origin of the dinosaur extinction
Abstract 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. He...
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Nature Portfolio
2021
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