3265: Asteroid Threat
| Asteroid Threat |
 Title text: Paleontologists have long worried that the dinosaurs blasted into space 66 million years ago will one day complete their orbits and fall back down. |
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It's generally agreed by scientists that most dinosaurs went extinct as a result of the Chicxulub asteroid impacting the Earth near the Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago. This comic posits that another asteroid is soon going to hit the Earth again. Because the impact location will be on the exact opposite side of the planet, it will have the opposite effect of bring dinosaurs back from extinction.
The general consensus is that the dinosaurs went extinct as a result of the environmental effects of the impact. The title text suggests that it actually launched the dinosaurs alive into space. They've been circling the Sun in a long orbit that will some day intersect with the Earth again.
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[Two images of Earth are shown. At the top left is a small picture, centered on the west coast of Africa, showing the Atlantic Ocean and the east cost of South America. Taking up most of the rest of the panel is a large picture centered on the Indian Ocean. There's a diagram with a circle and four spokes targeting a location northwest of Australia and southwest of Indonesia.]
[Caption below image:]
Dire news: An asteroid is on course to hit the earth exactly opposite the Yucatán Peninsula, bringing back the dinosaurs.
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