Timeline (Extinction Event)

This is a detailed timeline for Xx_Diictodon_xX's Extinction Event.

~65,000,000
Somewhere off of the coast of the modern day Yucatan Peninsula, a meteor almost the size of Mt. Everest hits. This results in a series of events the leads to the extinction of the dinosaurs.

July 30th
The Russian astronomer G. N. Neujmin discovers an asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. He names it Gaspra after a Black Sea hide-out.

October 29th
The Jupiter-orbiting spacecraft Galileo passes about 990 miles away from the asteroid Gaspra. It takes some images and records a lot of data and sends it back to Earth.

November 24th
Earth receives the data and images from Galileo. Scientists from NASA proceed to analyze the images and data. They identify the asteroid as Gaspra, and most celebrate because it is the first asteroid encountered by a spacecraft probe.

December 7th
NASA Scientist Gregory K. March, after running some diagnostics on the data discovered by Galileo, he works on the trajectory course that Gaspra will take over the next 20 years. After hours of work, he discovers that Gaspra will pass near Earth, close enough to be seen with little aid in 2005. He's quick to contact the President of NASA, Richard H. Truly, and tell him the news.