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- It's largely agreed upon in the scientific community that a massive impactor was what ultimately doomed the dinosaurs to extinction.
- Where that object came from has been the subject of debate, but Harvard scientists have proposed a possible explanation.
- A team of researchers from the university offers the theory that the impactor originated near the edge of the solar system in a ring of debris known as the Oort cloud.
The debate over what may have killed the dinosaurs and led to the mass extinction of so many species (while also making room for mammals to begin to thrive) will likely never be completely settled. That being said, the scientific community has, in recent years, largely agreed that a massive impact off the coast of Mexico was probably the trigger that set off a series of devastating events that ultimately doomed the dinosaurs and many other plants and animals.
Harvard researchers including Avi Loeb and Amir Siraj are looking to expand on that theory by proposing where such an object may have originated. It's no easy task to determine the origins of an object that slammed into Earth tens of millions of years before humans even showed up on the planet, but the team used simulations to make the case that the impactor may have originated in the Oort cloud, which is a massive collection of debris situated on the edge of our solar system.
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