{"id":1753,"date":"2003-11-21T22:33:22","date_gmt":"2003-11-22T02:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/11\/21\/doncha-hate-it-when-that-happens\/"},"modified":"2003-11-21T22:33:22","modified_gmt":"2003-11-22T02:33:22","slug":"doncha-hate-it-when-that-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/11\/21\/doncha-hate-it-when-that-happens\/","title":{"rendered":"Doncha Hate It When That Happens?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WASHINGTON
\n (AP) — Researchers studying rocks from Antarctica have found chemical
\n evidence that a huge meteorite smashed the Earth 251 million years ago
\n and caused the greatest extinction event in the planet’s history, killing
\n about 90 percent of all life. <\/p>\n

Scientists believe the extinction, which scientists call the Permian-Triassic
\n event, came some 185 million years before a similar meteorite collision
\n with the planet killed off the dinosaurs.<\/p>\n

The violence of the impact would have caused a huge fireball and sent
\n billions of tons of dust into the atmosphere, enough to darken the
\n sun for months. It also would have laid down a layer of dust bearing
\n the same chemical composition as the meteorite.<\/p>\n

from
\n CNN<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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