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yoooooman

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Discuss the extinction of the dinosaurs, relating it to an astronomical event.
 
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Which of the following best describes what would happen if a 1.5-solar-mass neutron star, with a diameter of a few kilometers, were suddenly (for unexplained reason) to appear in your home town?
 
  A) The combined mass of Earth and the neutron star would cause the neutron star to collapse into a black hole.
  B) It would rapidly sink to the center of Earth.
  C) The entire Earth would end up as a thin layer, about 1 cm thick, over the surface of the neutron star.
  D) It would crash into Earth, throwing vast amounts of dust into the atmosphere that, in turn, would cool the Earth; this is probably what caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.


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Reply #1 on: Jul 27, 2018
Answer to Question 1

About 65 million years ago, a 20 km-wide asteroid hit near the northern end of the Yucatan peninsula, leaving a huge (now filled in) crater and devastating the entire Earth; many other species of life also became extinct as well.

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