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'Dream Team' Agrees Huge Asteroid Killed Dinosaurs

(March 4) -- For decades, scientists have debated exactly what kind of cataclysm was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs. Did a giant rock from outer space blast T. rex and his ilk off the face of the Earth? Or was a huge volcanic eruption to blame? Now the jury is in -- maybe. In Friday's issue of the...

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04/13/12 Parts of asteroid that hit Earth 65m yrs ago may have... Source: Sify Their studies are not being done simply to answer centuries-old curiosities, but they have true scientific value because these rocks could possibly sustain life if they have been able to retain water during their significant space travels.
12/29/10 Past Martian Atmosphere Tied to Impact Craters Here Source: Softpedia News A planetary geologist at NASA proposes that, in order to understand how the past climate of the Red Planet looked like, we need to study prehistoric craters back on Earth in more details.
11/08/10 Was Earth Struck By Multiple ET Impacts 65 Million... Source: The Daily Galaxy 0.64 million years, based on argon dating techniques, is within error of that of Chicxulub Crater in Mexico, and the KT boundary.
08/30/10 Dinosaurs wiped out by meteor shower lasting ages Source: Sify Dinosaurs may have been wiped out from the earth 65 million years ago by a meteor shower which lasted thousands of years, according to new evidences.