Researchers said the asteroid 'unleashed an incredible amount of climate-changing gases into the atmosphere' which led to the dinosaurs' extinction
New research has been found suggesting that the asteroid which led to the extinction of dinosaurs 66 million years ago hit Earth at the "deadliest possible" angle.
As billions of tons of sulfur released in the air and blocked the sun, a lethal "nuclear winter" occurred and wiped out dinosaurs entirely, as well as 75 percent of life on Earth, the report stated.said in a statement on the college's website They later looked at geophysical data and simulated the event on the computer, which helped determine what direction and speed the real asteroid came in from — horizontally, at 20 kilometers per second — as well as what angle it struck the Earth.
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