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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.
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.
A review in Systematic Biology complains that the book "at times seems a review of his and his colleagues' accomplishments" but nevertheless calls it overall "captivating". [10] Several reviewers criticized Brusatte's focus on T. rex and other "celebrity" [10] clades, with one reviewer complaining that they "got somewhat out-T. rexed". [4] [12]
Life As We Knew It is a young adult science fiction novel by American author Susan Beth Pfeffer, first published in 2006 by Harcourt Books. It is the first book in The Last Survivors series, followed by The Dead and the Gone. The book follows a teenage girl named Miranda and her family, who live in northeastern Pennsylvania and struggle to ...
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 ...
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.
Night of the Comet is a 1984 American science fiction comedy horror film written and directed by Thom Eberhardt. It stars Catherine Mary Stewart , Robert Beltran , and Kelli Maroney as survivors of a comet that has turned most people into either dust or zombies.
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