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OTHER CANDIDATES. “It predicts a larger proportion of impactors with carbonaceous chondritic compositions than would be expected from meteorite falls of main-belt asteroids.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82320-2 View in LinkedIn

MASSIVE IMPACTOR. “Our hypothesis explains the composition of the largest confirmed impact crater in Earth’s history as well as the largest one within the last million years.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82320-2 View in LinkedIn

CONSISTENT DATA. “This new rate would be consistent with the age of the Chicxulub impact crater, thereby providing a satisfactory explanation for the origin of the impactor.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82320-2 View in LinkedIn

AUGMENTED IMPACTOR. “This population could increase the impact rate of long-period comets capable of producing Chicxulub impact events by an order of magnitude.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82320-2 View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENTED METEORS. “Here, we show that a fraction of long-period comets are tidally disrupted after passing close to the Sun, each producing a collection of smaller fragments that cross the orbit of Earth.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82320-2 View in LinkedIn

AN IMPORTANT PAPER by astrophyscists Amir Siraj, and the famous Professor Abraham Loeb, of the Department of Astronomy, Harvard University, suggests that the breakup of a long-period comet was at the origin of the dinosaur extinction. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82320-2 View in LinkedIn

METEOR FINGERPRINT. “Meteoric iridium content is more than that of crustal materials by nearly a factor of 10(4). So, if something does hit the earth from outside, you can detect it because of this great enhancement.” A classic summary of global iridium anomalies, which suggests that iridium rich meteor may have contributed to the simultaneous demise of the dinosaurs, flora and fauna. https://lnkd.in/e-iNGMJz View in LinkedIn

POPULAR CANDIDATE METEOR for the extinction of the dinosaurs is the well documented Chicxulub-gravity-anomaly which is the relic of a massive impact crater. https://lnkd.in/eqAYpQg2 View in LinkedIn

DARK MATTER HALOS. “The spherical collapse model for the formation of individual DM halos.” (DM = dark matter). https://lnkd.in/e6ifiQMn View in LinkedIn

ONE OF THREE. “Chicxulub is one of only three multi-ring craters documented in the terrestrial record and impact has been related to the global environmental/ climatic effects and mass extinction that mark the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary.” https://lnkd.in/eqAYpQg2 View in LinkedIn