Hi Richard, all - At least here on the meteorite list the peanut gallery is allowed to squeak.
Amazing - There appear to be no mention of either Chicxulub or Shiva in the wikipedia article on extinctions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction Apparently, they're all due to global warming now. When one of the larger YD craters is definitively proved, then obviously it will have to be co-incidental to the extinction that occurred then. And/Or it will have to be a Carbonaceous asteroid that hit. And of course the First Peoples detailed memories of those comet fragment impacts are simply fairy tales made up by retarded savages. My mistake! :p) Now since the Nemesis Hypothesis has been thoroughly disproved, perhaps you'll send Morrison a note suggesting that he update this piece: http://www.csicop.org/si/show/is_the_sky_falling in which he thoroughly endorsed the Nemesis Hypothesis as the standard paradigm, while damning Clube and Napier. http://ethomas.web.wesleyan.edu/ees123/crater_age_6.gif http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/paleobiology/figure.asp?chap=07&fig=Fig7-6&img=c07f006 Aside from that, I am thoroughly enjoying the images of the fragments of 73P which are being posted to the MPML. I hope that some IR images of 73P's dust load come along shortly. good hunting, E.P. Grondine Man and Impact in the Americas PS - I tried to get some YD nanodiamonds from an excavator to sell to list participants, but he thought the commercialism would sully the science, and the preparation costs were too high. ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
