Visitors from the Abyss: How Passing Planets Shaped Earth's Fate ⚡ экспресс
Original: "Mass Extinctions by Gravitational Tides"
A planet flying past Earth could trigger floods, eruptions, and the death of the dinosaurs.
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Sometimes rogue planets race past Earth, unleashing monstrous tidal waves and eruptions. Perhaps that's how the dinosaurs died 66 million years ago—not from an asteroid, but from a gravitational punch.
🎯 Tidal forces knead Io, Jupiter's moon, so relentlessly that it erupts lava nonstop—like a cosmic poker stoking the coals.
🎬 In Stephen Baxter's novel "Evolution", a passing neutron star alters Earth's climate and triggers an extinction.