Asteroid Impact (IMAGE)

Southwest Research Institute

Asteroid Impact

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An SwRI team modeled evolutionary processes in the main asteroid belt and discovered that impactors such as the one that ended the reign of the dinosaurs are most likely from the outer half of the main asteroid belt. The team also discovered that delivery processes from that region occur 10 times more often than previously thought.

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SwRI/Don Davis

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