[SunkenCiv]

(Editing by Tom Brown and Stacey Joyce)

Image courtesy of NASA shows an artist's concept of a broken-up asteroid. Scientists think that a giant asteroid, which broke up long ago in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, eventually made its way to Earth and led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. REUTERS/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout

[Jack Hydrazine]

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‘Record close’ asteroid may miss the Earth but it could take out your phone
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[cripplecreek]

I think the car was already wrapped around the tree with all occupants critical and the asteroid was the bullet to the head.

[miliantnutcase]

Assault asteroids

[count-your-change]

Maybe diarrhea killed the dinos.