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That is a necessary but not a sufficient condition, as the type of rock involved, called carbonaceous chondrite, is found in other asteroids, too.
ECONOMIST: Asteroid impacts
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If the arrival was made of carbonaceous chondrite, it would have weighed 25 times as much as all the other carbonaceous chondrite material that had fallen over the previous half million years.
ECONOMIST: Paleoforensic science
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Assuming that the figure was similar during the Cretaceous, it would be a long shot that the first fossil meteorite to turn up from 65m years ago was made of such a rock unless a huge extra supply of carbonaceous chondrite had suddenly arrived on the planet.
ECONOMIST: Paleoforensic science