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The consensus of most scientists states dinosaur extinct due to impact asteroid massive to Earth about 66 million years ago. Now there is a horrendous discovery, namely the remains of the asteroid.
In research in North Dakota, United States, which recorded some of the evidence of the asteroid’s destruction, scientists thought they had found the remains of the space rock in ancient sap.
At the site, previously found remains of fish, turtles, and dinosaur legs that were thought to have died when the asteroid hit. Even the dinosaur was also said to have died right when the asteroid impact occurred.
The fossil was mixed with plants that appeared to have been swept away by waves triggered by Earth’s intense tremors from the impact of an asteroid estimated to be 10 kilometers long.
Now, Robert De Palma from the University of Manchester who led this research, said that his party may have found traces of it asteroid in the small rubber circles of the tree that originated from the day of the accident.
“In the sap, we found several spheres which are basically immortalized because like insects stored in the sap, water cannot enter them. So they are perfectly preserved,” he was quoted as saying. detikINET from CNN.
From there, the rock fragments thought to be an asteroid were taken. Most of it is rich in calcium, probably from limestone on the Yucatan Peninsula, the site of the asteroid impact. From initial research, the rock remains are believed to have come from outer space.
Further research is still needed to confirm this. “A possible example would be a small fragment of asteroid that hits Earth, the fact that it’s so awake, would be pretty amazing,” said Jim Garvin, an astronomer who studies asteroid collisions.
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