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Flipboard Science Desk (sciencedesk@flipboard.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 04:25:58 JST Flipboard Science Desk

The asteroid that hit the Gulf of Mexico 66 million years ago, causing a mass extinction event that wiped out about 60% of the planet’s non-avian dinosaurs, had a lot of time to build up its destructive momentum. New evidence suggests that the asteroid originated from beyond the outer limits of the solar system. BBC Science Focus explains: https://flip.it/JZk6AT
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1. The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs had a very strange origin, scientists find
  
  The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs has puzzled scientists for decades. Where did it come from? Now, a team thinks they have the answer.

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