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Extinction firestorm theory questionned
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T.K. RandallDecember 29, 2009 ·
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Image Credit: Don Davis/NASA
The massive asteroid impact that is thought to have been responsible for killing the dinosaurs may not have sparked a global firestorm as scientists had thought according to a new computer model on the aftermath of the collision.
New research challenges the idea that the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs also sparked a global firestorm. Scientists modeled the effect that sand-sized droplets of liquefied rock from the impact had on atmospheric temperature. The asteroid is thought to have gouged out the Chicxulub crater on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.
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