A space rock roughly six feet wide and weighing about seven tons slammed into Earth’s atmosphere at approximately 45,000 mph ...
Chicxulub asteroid type identified: a new Science Advances paper concludes the dinosaur-killing impactor was a CO chondrite — ...
Researchers from the University of British Columbia studying material from the mysterious dinosaur-killer meteorite that wiped out 75% of Earth’s species, including non-avian dinosaurs, have ...
Scientists identified the rare CO chondrite meteorite that killed the dinosaurs, revealing the impact dust killed life — not ...
The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was likely an exceptionally rare CO chondrite from a distant region of the solar system. Its unusual chemistry suggests that planet-cooling dust and debris, ...