{"id":18755,"date":"2015-10-26T10:46:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T17:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/mass-extinctions-linked-to-comet-and-asteroid-showers"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:20:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:20:41","slug":"mass-extinctions-linked-to-comet-and-asteroid-showers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/mass-extinctions-linked-to-comet-and-asteroid-showers","title":{"rendered":"Mass extinctions linked to comet and asteroid showers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mass-extinctions-linked-to-comet-and-asteroid-showers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Equal parts interesting and disturbing.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b>Mass extinctions occurring over the past 260 million years were likely caused by comet and asteroid showers, a new study concludes. An artist\u2019s illustration of a major asteroid impact on Earth. (credit: NASA\/Don Davis)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Mass extinctions occurring over the past 260 million years were likely caused by comet and asteroid showers, scientists conclude in a new study published in an open-access <a href=\"http:\/\/mnras.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/454\/4\/3480.abstract?sid=c36ecfc1-6051-48e7-a38c-dfdda795e74b\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a> in <em>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For more than 30 years, scientists have argued about a controversial hypothesis relating to periodic mass extinctions and impact craters \u2014 caused by comet and asteroid showers \u2014 on Earth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/mass-extinctions-linked-to-comet-and-asteroid-showers\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equal parts interesting and disturbing. Mass extinctions occurring over the past 260 million years were likely caused by comet and asteroid showers, a new study concludes. An artist\u2019s illustration of a major asteroid impact on Earth. (credit: NASA\/Don Davis) Mass extinctions occurring over the past 260 million years were likely caused by comet and asteroid [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69306,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18755\/revisions\/69306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}