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James Taylor is an American writer and publisher. He co-founded Dolphin-Moon Press in 1973, one of Baltimore 's oldest small press publishing houses. Early life and education
A rebuttal in Astronomy & Geophysics countered that Loeb et al. had ignored that the amount of iridium deposited around the globe, 2.0 × 10 8 –2.8 × 10 8 kg (4.4 × 10 8 –6.2 × 10 8 lb), was too large for a comet of the size implied by the crater, and that they had overestimated likely comet impact rates.
The study confirmed previous findings that identified the asteroid as a carbonaceous-type, or C-type, asteroid, but refuted a 2021 hypothesis that the dinosaur killer was likely a comet.
Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid larger than Mt. Everest ripped through the atmosphere of Earth, striking our planet at the Yucatán Peninsula, on the southeastern coast of Mexico.
We knew that an asteroid heralded the end of the age of the dinosaurs. Now researchers say they have discovered a key element in their extinction ... Scientists believe they have finally uncovered ...
Comet Taylor is a periodic comet in the Solar System, first discovered by Clement J. Taylor (Cape Town, South Africa) on November 24, 1915.. George van Biesbroeck and E. E. Barnard (Yerkes Observatory, Wisconsin, United States) observed that the comet was split into two distinct nuclei, but this was not seen after March 16.
A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth.The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of ...
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.