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Nature 431, 1027 (28 October 2004) | doi:10.1038/4311027a; Published online 27 October 2004

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Comet impact theory faces repeat analysis

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Study starts to investigate cause of mass extinction 250 million years ago.

NASA is backing attempts to duplicate a published claim that a comet impact caused a mass extinction of species about 250 million years ago.The space agency sent three scientists to China earlier this month to collect geological samples in an attempt to repeat the results of Luann Becker, a geochemist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her colleagues.

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