[meteorite-list] New Research Strengthens Asteroid Impact as Cause of Dinosaur Extinctions

From: Paul H. <inselberg_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 21:10:38 -0500
Message-ID: <20130208021038.HAU6G.195116.imail_at_eastrmwml205>

Fresh Clues In Dinosaur Whodunit Point To Asteroid
by Adam Cole, All Things Consdiered, February 7, 2013
http://www.npr.org/2013/02/07/171170142/fresh-clues-in-dinosaur-whodunit-point-to-asteroid

Asteroid Impact That Killed the Dinosaurs: New
Evidence. LiveScience.com, February 6, 2012
http://www.livescience.com/26933-chicxulub-cosmic-impact-dinosaurs.html

New Evidence Strengthens Argument That Dinosaurs
Died As Result of Asteroid Impact (New study says
cosmic impact, dinosaur extinction were 'synchronous
events') by Jason Koebler, US News,
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/02/07/new-evidence-strengthens-argument-that-dinosaurs-died-as-result-of-asteroid-impact

After the Dinosaurs Died This Furball Started the Next
Big Thing, Wired news, February 8, 2013
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/mammals-and-dinosaurs/

The papers are,

Palike, H. 2013, Impact and Extinction. Science.
vol. 339 no. 6120 pp. 655-656
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6120/655.summary

Renne, P. R., a. L. Deino, F. J. Hilgen, K. F. Kuiper,
D. F. Mark, W. S. Mitchell III, L. E. Morgan, R. Mundil,
and J. Smit, 2013, Time Scales of Critical Events
Around the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary. Science.
vol. 339, no. 6120, pp,. 684-687.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6120/684.abstract

O'Leary, M. A., J. I. Bloch, J. J. Flynn, and many others, 2013,
The Placental Mammal Ancestor and the Post?K-Pg Radiation
of Placentals. Science. vol. 339, no. 6120, pp. 662-667
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6120/662.abstract

Best wishes,

Paul H.
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