For more on this, #kidlit readers, look for THE DOOMSDAY DETECTIVES: How Walter and Luis Alvarez Solved the Mystery of Dinosaur Extinction, by Cindy Jenson-Elliott, coming out this spring from @leeandlow.bsky.social!
We don’t have a good mental model for the meteorite that ended the Cretaceous. It hit so fast it punched a hole in our atmosphere and surely launched dinosaurs into space.

This technically makes some poor T-Rex earth’s first astronaut. Passage from Ends of the World by @peterbrannen.bsky.social.

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