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Dinosaur-killing Chicxulub asteroid formed in Solar System’s outer reaches

Rock samples hold clues to origin of impactor that sparked a mass extinction 66 million years ago.
  1. Michael Marshall
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The object that smashed into Earth and kick-started the extinction that wiped out almost all dinosaurs 66 million years ago was an asteroid that originally formed beyond the orbit of Jupiter, according to geochemical evidence from the impact site in Chicxulub, Mexico.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02647-4

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