Meteorite

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…

I think that a bomb caused the Tunguska Explosion, because there is no way a meteorite could have caused it and not left an indention. The Tunguska Explosion happened on the morning of June 30, 1908, at 7:17 A.M. (Yeomans). It occurred in the area of Stony Tunguska River near Siberia, Russia. Even though the explosion occurred on June 30, the first report of the explosion was on July 2. If the explosion was as big as the witnesses say it was, I don’t see how people didn’t know about it.…

How would our world react if a meteorite was on a collision course with our planet and there was no chance of it missing us? The answer is simple: the world would return to its roots. The people of our planet would be returning to their homes, embracing their families, worshipping their religion, and praying that a greater power would help us. Proposing that the meteorite suddenly changed its course and missed our planet, how would our world join together through the fear of the event and…

A comet is contained within the solar system and orbits the sun, when it is close enough to the sun, something that looks like a tail is shown, and it seems diffused. A meteor, is a meteoroid that is burnt up, whilst passing through Earth’s atmosphere. A meteorite is a meteor, that doesn’t burn up in Earth’s atmosphere, but collides with the Earth’s surface. An Asteroid, is made of rocks and metals and is contained in the solar system as well. It is very similar to a comet is extremely similar…

It would have been a dramatic and fiery event, with the meteor blazing across the sky. As it broke apart, large fragments of metal-rich rock would have crashed to Earth with explosive force, creating a dozen giant craters. The Northern Territory site, which was discovered in the 1930s by white prospectors with the help of Luritja guides, is today known as the Henbury Meteorites Conservation Reserve. The story of Henbury indicates a living memory of an event that occurred a few thousands of years…

Two hundred and fifty two years ago, huge volcanoes erupted in Siberia and continued to put out basalt lava and clouds of gases for up to five hundred thousand years (Benton 1). They were not the average cone shaped volcanoes we know today, instead they are huge rifts in the Earth’s crust (Benton 2). There is much evidence of the Deccan Traps in India took place around the same time as the dinosaur extinction. The Deccan Traps erupted on a huge scale, which could create a huge impact on the…

million years ago a meteorite roughly 10 km across hit the earth’s surface, and the impact would be a catalyst to the extinction of 75% of the species living on earth at the time, including the dinosaurs. The impact of the meteorite would have instantly killed any organisms within proximity. But a majority of destruction happened after the impact. The impact blew enough dust, and debris into the atmosphere…

Sixty-five million years ago, dinosaurs like the tyrannosaurus rex and the triceratops once roamed the Earth. Suddenly all these great creatures disappeared and it’s not quite sure how they vanished from existence. There are several theories to explain what is known to be the most popular mass extinction of all time. Asteroid The belief that an asteroid struck the planet earth is the most common and most believed theory. This theory has more evidence to back it up than just a giant rock…

Curiosity Rover examined on site identified to be the organic compounds that includes complex compound so-called PAHs. Nasa announced that this evidence may show the existence of primitive life in Mars. Ashwin Vasavada, project scientist for the Mars Science Lab (Curiosity), NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, commented that the mankind and Martian can be a close relative like “just a cousin”. “If there was life once on Mars, maybe there is life elsewhere in our galaxy. It looks more and more like…

In India, there are records of ancient volcanic activity that occurred at the time of the K-T boundary. Aside from the iridium layer of rock that gives evidence to an impact, there is also a 110-mile crater found in the Yucatan peninsula that also dates back to the time of the dinosaurs’ extinction point, and at that crater; there are no non-avian dinosaurs that were found at the impact layer, so that also gives evidence that something was causing the dinosaurs to die before the meteorite…