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Chunk of Death-Dealing Asteroid Found

A meteorite found in the Pacific Ocean appears to be a fragment of the asteroid that ended the reign of the dinosaurs.

References:

Kyte, F.T. 1998. A meteorite from the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary. Nature 396(Nov. 19):237.

Further Readings:

Monastersky, R. 1997. New Jersey’s link to a global crisis. Science News 151(June 14):373.

______. 1997. The call of catastrophes. Science News 151(March 1):S20.

Sources:

Frank T. Kyte
University of California, Los Angeles
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567

Harry Y. McSween, Jr.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Department of Geological Sciences
Knoxville, TN 37996-1410

H. Jay Melosh
University of Arizona
Lunar & Planetary Laboratory
Tucson, AZ 85721

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 21, November 21, 1998, p. 324. Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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