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SOLAR SYSTEM
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Question
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Sam, a Scientist, think the ____ became instinct when one of the comets came crushing into planet Earth.
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Giraffes
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White shark
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Dinosaurs
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Scientists already know that an asteroid-or perhaps a comet-struck Earth off Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. The resulting 110 miles/80 kilometers wide Chicxulub crater is thought to have caused a decades-long “impact winter” that killed the dinosaurs.
Detailed explanation-2: -Around 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period, an asteroid struck the Earth, triggering a mass extinction that killed off the dinosaurs and some 75% of all species.
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