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zekromNLR t1_iyviz9p wrote on December 4, 2022 at 2:32 PM

Reply to comment by redlinezo6 in Did the impact from the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs change the earth’s orbit? by phoinex711

The current best estimates suggest that the Chicxulub impactor was a stony asteroid (a carbonaceous chondrite) of about 10 km diameter, that impacted at around 20 km/s, at an angle of 45 to 60 degrees from the horizontal, coming from the northeast.