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A large asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago, causing the mass extinction of the dinosaurs and creating the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary

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Science Friday
Is that spooky old house full of ghosts, or just infrasound?

An asteroid doesn't have to be big, but if it's moving really fast, it has a lot of power and it will generate infrasound, right?

Up First from NPR
The Day The Dinosaurs Died

But in addition to all those fossils, the other key thing that Ken and his team have unearthed is a metal called iridium that's usually only found in asteroids. Ken explained the latest thinking on exactly what happened that day, 66 million years ago, when an asteroid slammed into the Earth.