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Space pile-up ‘condemned dinos’

SEP 06, 2007
Physics Today
BBC : A colossal collision in space 160 million years ago set the dinosaurs on the path to extinction, a study claims. An asteroid pile-up sent debris swirling around the Solar System, including a chunk that later smashed into Earth wiping out the great beasts.
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