Ninety five million year death sentence

In the night sky, in the late Jurassic, no sleeping dinosaur awoke in order to see two asteroids collide. The event was probably not even visible from Earth. But for all the descendants of these dinosaurs (save the ones with wings), this collision was a literally Earth shattering event.

Fragments of this colossal interplanetary collision would slowly be pulled into our area of the solar system. A hundred million years ago, one of them probably struck the moon and made the Tycho crater. And then, sixty five million years ago, one would have struck the Yucatan peninsula in the gulf of Mexico, sending embers across the world and burning down nearly every forest on the planet, and coating the Earth in a thin layer of iridium, as the dust slowly settled from the resulting nuclear winter.

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