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13 posted on
02/03/2010 3:36:22 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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Just an update to the ping message.
If P/2010 A2 is indeed the result of an asteroid collision, its orbit is consistent with its being a member of the Flora asteroid family, which was itself produced by collisional shattering. In fact, according to this NASA news release, one fragment of the collision that produced the Flora family may have been the impactor that struck the Earth 65 million years ago, possibly the cause of the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.
17 posted on
10/26/2013 8:27:26 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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18 posted on
08/10/2020 2:44:26 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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