Asteroid that created Chicxulub crater arrived at the deadliest possible angle

[gary]

A 26th May 2020 press release (http://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/197694/dinosaur-dooming-asteroid-struck-earth-deadliest-possible/)by Caroline Brogan at the Imperial
College London discusses results published in Nature Communications
that suggest the asteroid that struck Chicxulub arrived at the deadliest
possible angle and that the geologic composition of the rocks created
a deadly cocktail for life on Earth at the time.



Full press release including graphics here :-
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/197694/dinosaur-dooming-asteroid-struck-earth-deadliest-possible/

Abstract, "Nature Communications", "A steeply-inclined trajectory for the Chicxulub impact" by Collins et. al. :-
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15269-x

[multiweb]

It's hard to imagine when you see those cross sections scales and the corresponding timestamps. The amount and volume of stuff that got shuffled around. :scared:

[OICURMT]

Why would they call it a nuclear winter?

[Scorpius51]

I imagine they are using a little literary license to a parallel with the potential after effects of a nuclear war.

[cannon_gray]

According to scientists' calculations, if the asteroid fell to the Earth at an angle of 15 °, the amount of dust, carbon dioxide and sulfur compounds thrown out would be about three times less, and if it fell vertically - an order of magnitude less.