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To: Modernman; yall

This impactor was in the same size class as the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Yet it didn't cause a major extinction event.

IMHO this is because the Chixulub impact was on shallow water. Imagine a 60 mile wide white hot crater with sea water pouring in from all sides! It's a recipe for steam cleaming a large portion of a planet...


23 posted on 08/23/2004 7:49:50 AM PDT by null and void (We're trying to achieve liberal goals by conservative means - Karl Rove, KSFO 8/18/04)
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To: null and void

Or maybe the Chixulub event did not wipe out the dinosaurs. This event is alledged to be bigger and yet did no or little damage on a plantary scale? hmmmm, something does not cumpute.


36 posted on 08/23/2004 8:26:52 AM PDT by jpsb (Nominated 1994 "Worst writer on the net")
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