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The new study suggests that the parent object of asteroid (298) Baptistina was hit
by another large asteroid, creating numerous large fragments that would later create
the Chicxulub crater on the Yucatan Peninsula as well as the prominent Tycho crater
found on the Moon.
Credit: Southwest Research Institute
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01/14/09
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