[meteorite-list] Re: German Scientists Claim Asteroid Not Responsible For Killing Off Dinosaurs

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:14:09 2004
Message-ID: <200304301546.IAA02543_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

>However, drill
>samples taken from a giant asteroid site at Yucatan in Mexico show preserved
>life forms in the rock strata that lived 300,000 years after dinosaurs were
>presumed extinct.

>Professor Stinnesbeck found, above the so-called impact layer, a 55 centimetre
>thick limestone layer that preserved large quantities of plankton and other life.

The asteroid theory says the higher life forms, particulary the ones at the
top of the food like the dinosaurs, were the most adversely affected by the
asteroid impact. It never said all life forms went extinct, and in fact, many
of the lower life forms like bacteria and plankton and many of the small
animals did survive. So, finding lower lifeforms in the fossil record
300,000 years after the asteroid impact does not disprove the asteroid
theory at all.

Ron Baalke
Received on Wed 30 Apr 2003 11:46:11 AM PDT