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Dinosaur extinction due to asteroid?

MAY 01, 1982

DOI: 10.1063/1.2915087

Recent developments appear to confirm what at first seemed an outrageous idea: A meteorite or asteroid a few kilometers in diameter hit Earth about 65 million years ago and caused a major wave of biological extinctions.

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Volume 35, Number 5

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