Posted on 01/18/2019 10:41:27 AM PST by EdnaMode
Asteroids have been hitting the Earth for nearly 1 billion years, but the atmosphere has largely shielded the planet from some catastrophic events. However, some space rocks make their way through including the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.
But a new study notes that, over the past 290 million years, asteroids have been impacting the Earth at triple the rate they were previously and scientists aren't sure why.
After looking at 1 billion years' worth of asteroid impacts on both the Earth and Moon, researchers found that dinosaurs' fate was perhaps an inevitability.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Why is that?
Pretty sure it was white people who used the asteroids to subjugate other races.
The article supposes a whole bunch of stuff that can’t be proven.
Locate the mouse. Elementary Watson. You’re welcome.
Whatever you say.
No not the Russians. We have discovered in the last few decade that our planet is the bulls eye in a celestial shooting gallery. Every once in a while a big rock is going to get lucky. Poor living thinks on Earth will just have to accept that fact and live with the consequences.
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Thanks fieldmarshaldj. Rock and roll all night, and partly cloudy every day...
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I’d wager that triple the impacts is due to triple the orbital coincidences....if they go down, impacts will go down and someone can scratch their head wondering why that happened.
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