Dinosaur-dooming asteroid hit Earth at ‘deadliest’ angle, study suggests

This much we knew: some 66 million years ago an asteroid roughly twice the diameter of Paris crashed into Earth, wiping out all land-dwelling dinosaurs and 75 per cent of life on the planet.What remained a mystery was whether it was a direct hit or more of a glancing blow, and which would be more destructive.As it turns out, according to a study published Tuesday in Nature Communications, the giant space rock struck at the “deadliest possible” angle – 60 degrees.The cataclysmic impact kicked up…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3086260/dinosaur-dooming-asteroid-hit-earth-deadliest-angle-study-suggests