Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago crashed into Earth at 'the deadliest possible angle' of 60 degrees which maximized production of greenhouse gases

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 11:45 EDT, 26 May 2020 | Ian Randall

[Olog-hai]

The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs around 66 million years ago crashed into Earth at “the deadliest possible angle”, researchers have concluded.

The giant impacter struck what is today Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula at around 60 degrees — maximizing the production of climate-altering greenhouse gases.

The global disaster caused by the space rock — which was bigger than Mount Everest — was far worse than once thought, Imperial College London experts said.

Previous studies had suggested the asteroid came in at an angle of around 30 degrees, while others concluded that it crashed almost straight down.

However, the team’s computer simulation found that the gradient was bang in the middle of these two values — a fact that was more the worse for ancient life. […]

The asteroid left a 120-mile-wide crater at the disaster zone, vaporizing rock and sending billions of tons of sulfur and carbon dioxide into the prehistoric skies.

All living things within hundreds of miles of the impact site would have been incinerated within minutes.

Meanwhile, the dust cloud generated by the impact would have blocked out the sun — likely triggering a “nuclear winter” and seeing temperatures plunge, acid rain falling from the skies and 75 percent of living species wiped out. …

[Brooklyn Attitude]

Stopped reading at “climate-altering greenhouse gases”.

[Swordmaker]

I ate some slow smoked dinosaur for lunch just now we commonly call it chicken. Anyone who is in NYS should go to the natural history museum next to central park they have the best dinosaurs to birds lineage display I have seen. Better than the Smithsonian in D.C. I went to both in November 19 so they should still be exhibited.

They can’t. They’re closed. Can’t have those dinosaurs catch COVID19, you know.

[Olog-hai]

They did that with coffee too, albeit in the Obama years; before then, we were to cut back on the caffeine, but Obama comes along and it’s “drink more coffee; the more the better!”

[Redcitizen]

[dila813]

Wait, I thought they finally became extinct with a ice age.

So CO2 didn’t work?

[dila813]

LOL

[RightGeek]

[Secret Agent Man]

:)

[Does so]

Would the impact be enough to affect the rate of Earth’s spin?

Or affect the inclination of the Earth’s poles?

[dennisw]

You have been reading Graham Hancock.

[norwaypinesavage]

" the dust cloud generated by the impact would have blocked out the sun — likely triggering a “nuclear winter” and seeing temperatures plunge"

Since the resulting nuclear winter killed so many, why didn't the greenhouse gases that were released neutralize the cold and cause everything to die from Global Warming?