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Comet showers as a cause of mass extinctions

1987241 citationsJournal Article

Authors

Piet Hut · Institute for Advanced Study

Walter Álvarez · University of California, Berkeley

William P. Elder · University of Colorado Boulder

Thor A. Hansen · Western Washington University

Erle G. Kauffman · University of Colorado Boulder

Gerta Keller · Princeton University

Eugene M. Shoemaker

Topics & Keywords

Astro and Planetary Science Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils Geological and Geochemical Analysis

Publication Details

Published in: Nature

Volume 329, Issue 6135, pp. 118-126

DOI: 10.1038/329118a0

Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 45.23

· Astrogeology Science Center

P. R. Weissman · Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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