Fragments of Late Eocene Earth-Impacting Asteroids Linked to Disturbance of Asteroid Belt
Abstract
The impactors that created the large Popigai and Chesapeake Bay craters represent two different meteorite types. A Late Eocene multi-type asteroid shower may reflect solar-system instability and indicate an astronomical trigger of ice-house climate.
- Publication:
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78th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society
- Pub Date:
- July 2015
- Bibcode:
- 2015LPICo1856.5040S