Why Did An Asteroid Cause Mass Extinction

Prehistoric creature such as dinosaurs were believed to be wiped out by a meteorite/asteroid or another catastrophic event. How did an asteroid cause a mass extinction causing the majority of a planet’s population to die? Newton’s laws of motion can explain how and why a asteroid caused a mass extinction wiping out an entire planet’s evolution.
Scientist have multiple hypotheses leading to the end of the Cretaceous Era or T-K event. One of such, is the astronomical event that hit the earth sending an immense amount of debris and dust into the air clogging the skies, leading to a major climate change known as the Ice Age. The Ice Age killed off a multitude of major species such as dinosaurs and evolution for mammals flourished. This event could possibly recur today in the present in any given time and possibly have different or maybe the same effect. This all depends on the way the asteroid belt acts and …show more content…
We are able to understand why and how this happened because of Newton’s First Law of Science, inertia. An object at rest will stay at rest and an object in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by an outside force. In space their is no outside force such a gravity so it’s in a balanced force state, so when another meteorite is on a collision course with another meteorite and passes kinetic energy the second one goes flying because of unbalanced force, uninterrupted any other outside force it heads toward the earth’s atmosphere where it gains potential energy and momentum with gravity. Newton’s second law states that the acceleration of an object as produced by a net force is directly proportional to the magnitude of the net force. Since the meteorite had enough mass to wipe out about one third of the earth population at that time, it