Dinosaur-killing asteroid was likely a giant mudball, study says (Page 5 ) | August 18, 2024
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What the findings mean for the future
Impacts of the scale of Chicxulub happen only every 100 million to 500 million years. But because there is still an outside chance of Earth crossing paths with another asteroid or giant meteorite, Goderis said that it’s good to know “the physical and chemical properties of these objects, to think about how to protect ourselves” from a collision with a large space rock.
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