Asteroid impact may have gassed Earth

Did dinosaur-killing space rock create enough carbon monoxide to trigger extreme global warming?

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Anjali Nayar
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Nayar, A. Asteroid impact may have gassed Earth. Nature (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2009.477