A meteorite from the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary

1998/11/01 by Frank T. Kyte · 1 voice · 9 citations
Environmental Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Achondrite #Asteroid #Astro and Planetary Science #Astrobiology #Chondrite #Comet #Cretaceous #Earth science #Geochemistry #Geology #Impact crater #Isotope Analysis in Ecology #Meteorite #Paleontology #Parent body #Petrography #Physics #Planetary Science and Exploration #Shock metamorphism

paper · doi:10.1038/24322

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Cited by

• Earths composition: origin, evolution and energy budget
• Two large meteorite impacts at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary
• An asteroid breakup 160 Myr ago as the probable source of the K/T impactor
• The rate of small impacts on Earth
• Discovery of a 25-cm asteroid clast in the giant Morokweng impact crater, South Africa
• Meteorite and meteoroid: new comprehensive definitions
• Chondritic Meteorite Fragments Associated with the Permian-Triassic Boundary in Antarctica
• Breakup of a long-period comet as the origin of the dinosaur extinction. [europepmc]
• The breakup of a long-period comet is not a likely match to the Chicxulub impactor. [europepmc]

Discussions

• TIL: Someone found piece of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs in a sediment core from the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Kyte, F. A meteorite from the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary. Nature 396, 237 [bsky, 60 points, 0 comments]