Open AccessDinosaur‐killer asteroid origin?
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
astronomy & geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.168
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1468-4004
pISSN - 1366-8781
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-4004.2007.48504_6.x
Subject(s) - impact crater , asteroid , astrobiology , geology , fragment (logic) , peninsula , paleontology , geography , archaeology , physics , computer science , programming language
Was the bolide that hit the Yucatan Peninsula 65 million years ago a fragment of a larger body that broke up in an impact around 160 million years ago? Numerical modelling suggests that it was, and further that another fragment of this original body was responsible for Tycho crater on the Moon.