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The paper also mentions that, at the time, "dinosaur killer"-sized objects hit the Earth every 15 million years on average, which must have been sort of disrupt
by jeffbee 2y ago
The paper also mentions that, at the time, "dinosaur killer"-sized objects hit the Earth every 15 million years on average, which must have been sort of disruptive.
- kevinkeller 2y agoLikely due to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Heavy_Bombardment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Heavy_Bombardment
- jeffbee 2y agoWhat these authors claimed recently was that prior LHB estimates were low by a large factor. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00835-9 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00835-9
- kevinkeller 2y agoThanks for the paper link!