Meteor showers shed light on where comets formed in the early solar system
Phys.org - Thu 22 Aug 24An international team of 45 researchers studying meteor showers has found that not all comets crumble the same way when they approach the sun. In a paper published in the journal Icarus, they ...
Meteor Showers Shed Light on Where Comets Formed in the Early Solar System, Astrobiology - Fri 23 Aug 24Meteor showers shed light on where comets formed in the early solar system, ScienceDaily - Thu 22 Aug 24
Meteor showers shed light on where comets formed in the early solar system, Scienmag - Thu 22 Aug 24
Meteor showers shed light on where comets formed in the early solar system, Eurekalert - Thu 22 Aug 24
Debris from DART could hit Earth and Mars within a decade, say scientists
Phys.org - Thu 22 Aug 24On Sept. 26th, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroids Redirect Test (DART) collided with Dimorphos, the small moonlet orbiting the larger asteroid Didymos. In so doing, the mission successfully demonstrated ...
Scientists pinpoint dino-killing asteroid's origin: past Jupiter
Phys.org - Fri 16 Aug 24An intense debate surrounding the cosmic rock that killed the dinosaurs has stirred scientists for decades, but a new study has revealed some important—and far-out—data about the impactor's ...
Scientists Pinpoint Dino-killing Asteroid's Origin: Past Jupiter, International Business Times - Fri 16 Aug 24Dinosaur-killing Chicxulub asteroid formed in Solar System’s outer reaches
Nature News - Thu 15 Aug 24Nature, Published online: 15 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02647-4Rock samples hold clues to origin of impactor that sparked a mass extinction 66 million years ago.
Dino-killing asteroid came from beyond Jupiter
Science - Thu 15 Aug 24Trace metals found at extinction layer implicate rare, carbon-rich type of meteorite
Scientists Finally Know Where the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Came From — At Least They Think
Inverse - Thu 15 Aug 24You’re reading this because something catastrophic terminated the more than 150-million-year reign of the dinosaurs.What opened the doors for mammals to dominate Earth was likely an extraterrestrial ...
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs had a very strange origin, scientists find
Science Focus - Thu 15 Aug 24When an asteroid hit the Gulf of Mexico 66 million years ago, Earth changed forever. The impact caused a mass extinction event, killing around 60 per cent of the planet’s species – including ...
Scientists finally find where the object that wiped out the dinosaurs came from
The Independent - Thu 15 Aug 24‘Chicxulub’ object seems to have come from out beyond Jupiter
Dinosaur extinction caused by 6-mile-wide asteroid that came from beyond Jupiter
Interesting Engineering - Thu 15 Aug 24 Dinosaur-killing asteroid was likely a clay-rich mudball, scientists say, CNN - Fri 16 Aug 24We just learned where the asteroid that ended dinosaurs came from, National Geographic - Thu 15 Aug 24
IFLScience The Big Questions: How Will The Solar System End?, IFLScience - Thu 22 Aug 24
Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid's 'Distinct' Origins Revealed, Newsweek - Thu 15 Aug 24
Dinosaur-Killing Impactor Was Probably A Rare Asteroid From Beyond Jupiter, IFLScience - Thu 15 Aug 24
Meteor Showers Reveal Comet Formation Sites in Early Solar System, Mirage News - Thu 22 Aug 24
Asteroid That Doomed Dinosaurs Tracked Down, Mirage News - Fri 16 Aug 24
Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs: New Study Reveals Its Unlikely Origin, Science Blog - Fri 16 Aug 24
Chicxulub Impactor Found to Be Carbonaceous Asteroid, Mirage News - Thu 15 Aug 24
Unusual Origin Found for Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs
New York Times - Thu 15 Aug 24A study adds strong evidence to the hypothesis that the deadly rock came from a family of objects that originally formed well beyond the orbit of the planet Jupiter.
Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago came from beyond Jupiter, study finds - so, could another 'planet killer' space rock hurtle our way soon?
Daily Mail - Wed 21 Aug 24Experts from the University of Cologne claim that the six-mile-wide asteroid travelled millions of miles from beyond Jupiter before smashing into our planet.
Have astronomers found the 'secret recipe' for rapid planet growth?
SPACE.com - Tue 20 Aug 24Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus may dominate the solar system, but their formation remains mysterious. A new model could account for these planets' rapid and ...
Dinosaur-killing asteroid was a rare rock from beyond Jupiter, new study reveals
SPACE.com - Sun 18 Aug 24Scientists have uncovered the "genetic fingerprint" of the dinosaur-killing Chicxulub impactor, potentially revealing the fateful rock's origins in the outer reaches ...
Dinosaur-killing asteroid was a rare rock from beyond Jupiter, new study reveals , Livescience - Thu 15 Aug 24Scientists Believe They Now Know Where the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Came From
CNET - Fri 16 Aug 24The deposits left by the asteroid impact at Chicxulub, Mexico, are similar to other asteroids from the outer solar system.
Scientists Trace the Origin of Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid
Extremetech - Fri 16 Aug 24The asteroid that ended the Cretaceous era was probably a visitor from the outer solar system.
Asteroid That Ended the Dinosaurs Came From Beyond Jupiter, Study Finds
Smithsonian Magazine - Fri 16 Aug 24Metal isotopes delivered to Earth by the asteroid reveal it's consistent with space rocks formed in the outer solar system
Scientists learn more about the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs
Techspot - Fri 16 Aug 24A recently published study has shed more light on the cataclysm that ended the dinosaur era. Data from the research can also help scientists learn more about other objects that collide with ...
Tracking down the asteroid that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs
idw-online - Fri 16 Aug 24The asteroid that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago probably came from the outer solar system / publication in ‘Science’
Tracking Down The Asteroid That Sealed The Fate Of The Dinosaurs, Astrobiology - Mon 19 Aug 24Tracking down the asteroid that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs, ScienceDaily - Fri 16 Aug 24
Tracking down the asteroid that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs, Scienmag - Fri 16 Aug 24
Tracking down the asteroid that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs, Eurekalert - Fri 16 Aug 24
Isotope analysis reveals origins of asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs
Chemistry World - Fri 16 Aug 24The end-Cretaceous mass extinction was caused by a ruthenium-rich carbonaceous chondrite asteroid
We Finally Know Where The Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs Came From
ScienceAlert - Fri 16 Aug 24The deadly origins revealed.
Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Came from beyond Jupiter
Scientific American - Thu 15 Aug 24New evidence points to a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer solar system as the culprit for Earth’s most recent mass extinction
An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, not a comet, new study finds
Ars Technica - Thu 15 Aug 24Enlarge / Artist impression of a large asteroid impacting on Earth, such as the Chicxulub event that caused the end-Cretaceous mass extinction 66 million years ago. (credit: Mark ...
Dinosaur-killing asteroid likely came from deep space beyond Jupiter
Popular Science - Thu 15 Aug 24The asteroid likely responsible for wiping out roughly 75-percent of all Earth’s species, including non-avian dinosaurs, wasn’t just one of the planet’s rare mass extinction events—the ...
Caught in a Sand Trap
Astrobites - Wed 21 Aug 24Eleanor GreenspoonUniversity of California, BerkeleyEleanor Greenspoon is a second year graduate student in the College of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley in an astrochemistry ...
NASA bids farewell to NEOWISE mission
Astronomy.com - Mon 19 Aug 24After 10 years and nearly 27 million images, NASA said goodbye to the Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission last week when its transmitter was turned off. The ...
The Key To Rapid Planet Formation
Astrobiology - Mon 19 Aug 24A team of LMU researchers has developed a new model to explain the formation of giant planets such as Jupiter, which furnishes deeper insights into the processes of planet formation and could ...
The Chicxulub Impactor Was A Carbonaceous-type Asteroid From Beyond Jupiter
Astrobiology - Fri 16 Aug 24Scientists have pinpointed the origin and composition of the asteroid that caused the mass extinction 66 million years ago, revealing it was a rare carbonaceous asteroid from beyond Jupiter, ...
Chicxulub impactor was a carbonaceous-type asteroid from beyond Jupiter, Scienmag - Thu 15 Aug 24Chicxulub impactor was a carbonaceous-type asteroid from beyond Jupiter, Eurekalert - Thu 15 Aug 24
Meteor shower characteristics linked to early comet formation conditions
SpaceDaily - Sat 24 Aug 24Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2024 A global team of 45 scientists studying meteor showers has uncovered that comets break apart in different ways when nearing the Sun, with these variations ...
Researchers Uncover Unexpected Origin of the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid
SciTechDaily - Sun 18 Aug 24The asteroid that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago probably came from the outer solar system. Researchers discovered that the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs ...
Scientists Trace Dinosaur-Extinction Asteroid to Outer Solar System
SpaceDaily - Sat 17 Aug 24Berlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 17, 2024 Geoscientists from the University of Cologne have led an international research team in pinpointing the origins of the asteroid responsible for the extinction ...
Dinosaur-Killing Chicxulub Asteroid Came from beyond Jupiter: Study
Sci.News - Fri 16 Aug 24The so-called Chicxulub impactor was a carbonaceous-type asteroid that had formed beyond the orbit of Jupiter, according to a new paper published in the journal Science. The post Dinosaur-Killing ...
Asteroid That Wiped Out Dinosaurs Came from Beyond Jupiter
SpaceDaily - Fri 16 Aug 24Berlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 16, 2024 Scientists have determined that the asteroid responsible for the mass extinction event 66 million years ago was a rare carbonaceous asteroid originating ...
Asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs originated beyond Jupiter
The Hindu - Fri 16 Aug 24A new analysis of the debris from the impact 66 million years ago has resolved a long debate about the nature of the asteroid