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View all search resultsThe Chicxulub meteor, which slammed into what is now Mexico's Yucatan peninsula around 66 million years ago, is thought to have led to the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that killed off three quarters of life on Earth -- dinosaurs included.
A female calf, likely between 3 and 5 months old, and a male calf, whose age was estimated at around 1 year old, were separately spotted on camera traps in the Ujung Kulon National Park on the western tip of Java Island, according to the ministry.
The asteroid was two million kilometres (1.25 million miles) away at its nearest, according to NASA -- more than five times the distance between the Earth and the Moon but still close enough to be classified as a "potentially hazardous asteroid".
A pair of astronomers at Harvard say they have now resolved long standing mysteries surrounding the nature and origin of the "Chicxulub impactor", a huge celestial object that triggered a catastrophic "impact winter" that eventually wiped out three-quarters of life on Earth
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