{"id":194694,"date":"2024-08-17T05:26:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T10:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/we-finally-know-where-the-asteroid-that-killed-the-dinosaurs-came-from"},"modified":"2024-08-17T05:26:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T10:26:55","slug":"we-finally-know-where-the-asteroid-that-killed-the-dinosaurs-came-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/we-finally-know-where-the-asteroid-that-killed-the-dinosaurs-came-from","title":{"rendered":"We Finally Know Where The Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs Came From"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-finally-know-where-the-asteroid-that-killed-the-dinosaurs-came-from2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A space rock that smacked into Earth 66 million years ago and devastated the ancient life living thereon took a remarkably circuitous route to get here, a new study has found.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/how-did-an-asteroid-kill-the-dinosaurs-and-could-it-happen-again\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Chicxulub<\/a> event \u2013 the giant impact that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/traces-of-dinosaur-catastrophe-found-in-genes-of-todays-birds\"> ended the reign of non-avian dinosaurs<\/a>, clearing the way for mammalian life to rise \u2013 was triggered by an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/asteroid\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">asteroid<\/a> from a region of the Solar System out past the orbit of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-weirdest-facts-about-jupiter\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Jupiter<\/a>, the cold, dark outer limits, far from the Sun\u2019s light and warmth.<\/p>\n<p>And an asteroid it was indeed, with the new findings by an international team of researchers ruling out that the object could have been a comet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A space rock that smacked into Earth 66 million years ago and devastated the ancient life living thereon took a remarkably circuitous route to get here, a new study has found. The Chicxulub event \u2013 the giant impact that ended the reign of non-avian dinosaurs, clearing the way for mammalian life to rise \u2013 was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194694","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\/194694","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}