Right , shoulder strap in because this is a eldritch one . Thanks to a ( glorious ) piece of science writing that has beenshared onlineover the last few day , people are now determine what astrophysicists and ( possibly ) astronauts have roll in the hay for a retentive fourth dimension : There are most potential tiny chunks of dinosaur sit up there on the Moon .
Yes , that ’s proper , dinosaur beat us to it . Sixty - five million years before humankind took " one little step for man , one giant leap for mankind " , dinosaurs made it to our satellite , although to be just their base hit procedure were n’t quite as rigorous as ours so they did n’t so much step foot on the Moon as spray themselves across it like weewee from a Super Soaker .
How did they get there , and peradventure beyond ? Yes , you think it , their version of a rocket ship ( the impressive , terrifying idiots ) was hitching a heave on the rubble triggered by the asteroid that wiped them out .
When planets , like ours , are impacted by bodies from space , they are generally just leave with a crater for citizenry to gawp at .
However , if the body is expectant enough and fast enough , the encroachment can cause debris to achieveescape velocity(11.2 kilometers a second ) and bequeath our atmosphere entirely . A lot of it will hang back on the satellite , but other piece may be eject from the major planet ’s influence and head out into the Solar System , possibly putting them on collision courses with other planet .
We have a destiny of evidence of this happening , with at least289 meteoritesthat made it from encroachment on Mars all the room to Earth discovered on our planet so far . Many Moon in the Solar System are thought to have been created by gigantic impact , include our own . It may even be potential for microorganisms to survive the journey from Earth to other planets or frailty versa while hidden in rock , according to recent research .
But back to the dinosaurs . As writerPeter Brannenexplains in his bookThe Ends of the World , the shooting star that hit Earth was travel at such tremendous focal ratio that " as the asteroid collided with the earth , in the sky above it where there should have been air , the rock had punched a hole of outer infinite vacuum in the atmosphere . As the heavens stimulate in to close this hole , tremendous volumes of earth were expelled into compass and beyond — all within a second or two of shock . "
With the earth and rock went dinosaur bones . At the oddment of their world , little bits of them were buried on the Moon , andprobably Mars too .
