The scientists reviewed 20 years’ worth of evidence in search of a definitive answer to the mystery of what happened to life on Earth about 65 million years ago…
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The gigantic space rock, measuring about 15km across, slammed into the Earth at Chicxulub, off the Yucatan peninsular.
Dr Gareth Collins, one of the scientists from the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London, said: “The asteroid was about the size of the Isle of Wight and it hit the Earth 20 times faster than a speeding bullet…
The asteroid hit with a force one billion times greater than the power of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima at the end of the Second World War.
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