Posted on 08/27/2010 12:05:19 PM PDT by decimon
The dinosaurs were wiped out 65 million years ago by at least two meteorite impacts, rather than a single strike, a new study suggests.
Previously, scientists had identified a huge impact crater in the Gulf of Mexico as the event that spelled doom for the dinosaurs.
Now evidence for a second impact in the Ukraine has been uncovered.
This raises the possibility that the Earth may have been bombarded by a whole shower of meteorites.
The new findings are published in the journal Geology by a team lead by Professor David Jolley of Aberdeen University.
When first proposed in 1980, the idea that a meteorite impact had killed the dinosaurs proved hugely controversial. Later, the discovery of the Chicxulub Crater in the Gulf of Mexico, US, was hailed as "the smoking gun" that confirmed the theory.
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Problem solved ping.
Double Yawn ....
Thousands of years apart?
Oh, wow. Another new theory.
When will they get around to blaming Bush for it? ( / rolling eyes)
Love scientists "we know these things to be a FACT! Oh, look - new evidence...nevermind..."
But don't forget the role of the Israeli Zionist dogs whose oppressive occupation policies made the dinosaurs so poor and miserable that they felt the only option they had was to become martyrs in suicide operations! Archaeopteryx akhbar!
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Alien tourists visited the Earth before the meteor strikes. One got eaten by a T-Rex.
Back in orbit, his buddies hung one on bad at the wake and at about 3 am, one of them had a great idea . . .
Amazing how even after watching a Meteor turn into a string of meteorites and then hitting Jupiter, scientists assume that all Meteors stay in one piece before hitting Earth.
"I'm on it!"
I should have known!
Waves of fire and destruction covered the earth but the birds and insects all survived. Right, of course....
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Hard to dodge a meteorite. The Dinos never knew what hit them.
Alternative explanation: they weren’t real good at treading water.
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