A steeply-inclined trajectory for the Chicxulub impact
- Submitting institution
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Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 4735
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1038/s41467-020-15269-x
- Title of journal
- Nature Communications
- Article number
- 1480
- First page
- 1
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 5
- ISSN
- 2041-1723
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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6
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Diagnoses the direction and incidence angle of the Chicxulub asteroid impact responsible for a major extinction event. The impact angle was among the deadliest possible and constrains the volume of hazardous climate changing gases injected into the atmosphere. Study attracted widespread public interest, featuring in over 150 news outlets. Paper placed in top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked in Altmetric (https://www.altmetric.com/details/82771548#score).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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