WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A collision 160 million years ago of two asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter sent many big rock chunks hurtling toward Earth, including the one that zapped the dinosaurs, scientists said on Wednesday.
Their research offered an explanation for the cause of one of the most momentous events in the history of life on Earth — a six-mile-wide (10-km-wide) meteorite striking Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula 65 million years ago.
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This post was written by techhair on September 6, 2007
