Saturday 8 September 2007

Where Asteroid that killed off dinosaurs came from

The asteroid that supposedly killed off the dinosaurs has been traced to the Baptistina family of asteroids which are near Jupiter.

It is esimated that an asteroid broke away 160 million years ago,finally hitting in the Yucatan area about 64 million years ago.

The period is geologically marked by the K/T boundary.

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