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xkcd #3265: Asteroid Threat

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Paleontologists have long worried that the dinosaurs blasted into space 66 million years ago will one day complete their orbits and fall back down.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That would be wild…an asteroid returning fossils (surely fossils were blasted into space, not that I’m suggesting anything balsted into space can fossilize.)

[–] Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Anything that made it to space as ejecta from the KT Asteroid impact did so as molten debris