[meteorite-list] Is there a resolvable periodicity in impact cratering record ?

From: Paul <etchplain_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 20:30:27 -0500
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Could asteroids bombard the Earth to cause a mass extinction in ten
million years?
Asteroids have hit Earth throughout its history, but there?s no way to
know when
the next big one is likely. Sanna Alwmark, Lund University, Cosmos,
Agust 14, 2017
https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/could-asteroids-bombard-the-earth-to-cause-a-mass-extinction-in-ten-million-years

The paper is:

Matthias M. M. Meier and Sanna Holm-Alwmark, 2017, A tale of clusters: no
resolvable periodicity in the terrestrial impact cratering record.
Monthly Notices
  of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 467, Issue 3, 1 June 2017,
Pages 2545?2551, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx211
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/mnras/stx211

Yours,

Paul H.
Received on Sun 13 Aug 2017 09:30:27 PM PDT