Baptistina family

id: baptistina-family-180-17561405
title: Baptistina family
text: The Baptistina family is an asteroid family of more than 2500 members that was probably produced by the breakup of an asteroid 170 km (110 mi) across 80 million years ago following an impact with a smaller body. The two largest presumed remnants of the parent asteroid are main-belt asteroids 298 Baptistina and 1696 Nurmela. The Baptistina family is part of the larger Flora clan. It was briefly speculated that the Chicxulub impactor was part of the Baptistina family of asteroids, but this was dis
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category slug: encyclopedia
description: Asteroid group
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptistina_family
date created: 2007-09-06T01:07:52Z
date modified: 2024-09-05T15:03:17Z
main entity: {"identifier":"Q2063005","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2063005"}
image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/298Bap-LB1-mag15.jpg","width":925,"height":607}
fields total: 13
integrity: 16

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