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Depiction of the impactor believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs and other life forms on Earth
Courtesy of SwRI/Don Davis
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An SwRI team modeled evolutionary processes in the main asteroid belt and discovered that impactors such as the one that ended the reign of the dinosaurs are most likely from the outer half of the main asteroid belt. The team also discovered that delivery processes from that region occur 10 times more often than previously thought.