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Editorial
Nature 449, 1-2 (6 September 2007) | doi:10.1038/449001b; Published online 5 September 2007
The big splash
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Abstract
An unforeseeable chain of insights into an event 65 million years ago merits celebration.
When it comes to sensational science, the story of the asteroid impact some 65 million years ago at the boundary of the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods is hard to beat. The event itself must have been spectacular, with a vast fiery hole blown in Earth's crust and atmosphere, and tsunamis racing out from the impact point, kilometres tall.
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