[meteorite-list] Periodicity of Extinctions

From: mafer at imagineopals.com <mafer_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:14:52 +0100
Message-ID: <8a76b7b289167ab51ec218fe812a2619_at_>

I didn't realize wiki anything was a recognized science venue. I do use it
for spelling options and links though :)


Mark Ferguson


On 8:56:08 pm 08/03/11 "E.P. Grondine" <epgrondine at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
>
>
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