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Nature 449, 30-31 (6 September 2007) | doi:10.1038/449030a; Published online 5 September 2007
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Solar System: Lethal billiards
Philippe Claeys1 & Steven Goderis1
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A huge collision in the asteroid belt 160 million years ago sent fragments bagatelling around the inner Solar System. One piece might have caused the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
What are the chances of the sky falling on our heads? If it's an asteroid hitting Earth that we're talking about, we can't be too sure.
- Philippe Claeys and Steven Goderis are in the Department of Geology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Email: phclaeys@vub.ac.be
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