We all know how the story goes: a large asteroid falls to Earth from space, slamming into the Yucatán Peninsula with 100 million megatons of force. The impact spawned tsunami waves best measured in miles and kicked up dust, soot, and sulfur that blotted out the Sun, causing the death of about 75% of Earth’s species,…
We all know how the story goes: a large asteroid falls to Earth from space, slamming into the Yucatán Peninsula with 100 million megatons of force. The impact spawned tsunami waves best measured in miles and kicked up dust, soot, and sulfur that blotted out the Sun, causing the death of about 75% of Earth’s species,…Read more… Read More environment, cosmic doomsday, extinction events, chicxulub crater, cretaceouspaleogene extinction event, dinosaur, asteroid, natural disasters, disaster accident, pim kaskes, tanis, alvarez hypothesis, impact event, cretaceouspaleogene boundary, climate forcing Gizmodo
