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It's official: An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs
Reuters ^ | March 4, 2010

Posted on 03/04/2010 1:37:39 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

LONDON (Reuters) - A giant asteroid smashing into Earth is the only plausible explanation for the extinction of the dinosaurs, a global scientific team said on Thursday, hoping to settle a row that has divided experts for decades.

A panel of 41 scientists from across the world reviewed 20 years' worth of research to try to confirm the cause of the so-called Cretaceous-Tertiary (KT) extinction, which created a "hellish environment" around 65 million years ago and wiped out more than half of all species on the planet.

Scientific opinion was split over whether the extinction was caused by an asteroid or by volcanic activity in the Deccan Traps in what is now India, where there were a series of super volcanic eruptions that lasted around 1.5 million years.

The new study, conducted by scientists from Europe, the United States, Mexico, Canada and Japan and published in the journal Science, found that a 15-kilometre (9 miles) wide asteroid slamming into Earth at Chicxulub in what is now Mexico was the culprit.


(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; chicxulub; deccantraps; godsgravesglyphs
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Let's see...big asteroid hits...fireball circles the earth killing most dinosaurs......burning vegetation so there's no food for the dinosaurs....big question...how did the birds survive? What of all the flying insects?
61 posted on 03/04/2010 3:26:07 PM PST by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: BRK
This seems to be the new scientific method. Theories are no longer proven, they are agreed upon by a panel and declared to be fact. This is the way the old theologians did it, so I suppose we have not advanced as much as we think we have.
Sadly true.
62 posted on 03/04/2010 3:36:15 PM PST by samtheman
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To: 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; BBell; ...
A bunch of Deccan Traps Deniers!!! Probably in the employ of the asteroid industry!
A panel of 41 scientists from across the world reviewed 20 years' worth of research to try to confirm the cause of the so-called Cretaceous-Tertiary (KT) extinction, which created a "hellish environment" around 65 million years ago and wiped out more than half of all species on the planet. The new study, conducted by scientists from Europe, the United States, Mexico, Canada and Japan and published in the journal Science, found that a 15-kilometre (9 miles) wide asteroid slamming into Earth at Chicxulub in what is now Mexico was the culprit.
But seriously -- hey, about d@##ed time. Thanks Free ThinkerNY.
 
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63 posted on 03/04/2010 3:48:21 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Freedom is Priceless.)
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64 posted on 03/04/2010 3:49:40 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Freedom is Priceless.)
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To: decimon

Whoops! And THANKS decimon for the ping.


65 posted on 03/04/2010 3:51:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Freedom is Priceless.)
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To: count-your-change

***how did the birds survive? What of all the flying insects?***

They hunkered down until the smoke cleared.


66 posted on 03/04/2010 4:01:18 PM PST by sodpoodle (Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption.)
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To: SunkenCiv
I have a book next to me that was published in 1986 that said the same damned thing, that was about three cases of beer in those days.
67 posted on 03/04/2010 4:01:56 PM PST by Little Bill (Carol Che-Porter is a MOONBAT.)
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To: Little Bill

Is it Planet Earth? The book?


68 posted on 03/04/2010 4:04:07 PM PST by txhurl
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69 posted on 03/04/2010 4:05:51 PM PST by Cheburashka (Stephen Decatur: you want barrels of gunpowder as tribute, you must expect cannonballs with it.)
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To: envisio

Both true.


70 posted on 03/04/2010 4:12:21 PM PST by pfflier
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To: txhurl
“The Great Great Dying”, Kenneth J. Hsu, Harcout, Brace, Jovanovich, ISBN-15-136904-6, don't play games.
71 posted on 03/04/2010 4:33:36 PM PST by Little Bill (Carol Che-Porter is a MOONBAT.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
The only plausible explanation?


72 posted on 03/04/2010 5:01:21 PM PST by Sopater (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - 2 COR 3:17b)
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To: Little Bill

The book I had, Planet Earth, covered the Alvarez’s story in depth and had other separate great dyings research corroborating the asteroid theory.

Oort cloud stuff, very interesting.


73 posted on 03/04/2010 5:08:16 PM PST by txhurl
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To: count-your-change

Lotsa dinosaur carrion lying around, I’d say.


74 posted on 03/04/2010 5:12:04 PM PST by TheOldLady ("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants." -- Albert Camus)
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To: Sopater

Is that the Arc on top of Ararat?


75 posted on 03/04/2010 5:14:44 PM PST by TheOldLady ("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants." -- Albert Camus)
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To: TheOldLady

ArK ArK!!


76 posted on 03/04/2010 5:15:32 PM PST by TheOldLady ("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants." -- Albert Camus)
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To: SunkenCiv

Not!


77 posted on 03/04/2010 5:16:02 PM PST by LiteKeeper ("It's the peoples' seat!")
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To: jaz.357

There is one other plausible explanation: a global flood. Is actually a better explanation of the fossil fields than a giant asteroid.


78 posted on 03/04/2010 5:17:57 PM PST by LiteKeeper ("It's the peoples' seat!")
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To: Rennes Templar

“We need one one to land on the Dim side of Congress.”

Why a half way measure...?


79 posted on 03/04/2010 5:19:20 PM PST by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a tea party descendant - steeped in the Constitutional legacy handed down by the Founders)
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To: TheOldLady
That brings up another question....In the KT layer should be a layer of dino bones similar to the way a body would be covered by snow. Is that the case? Or are most bones found under the KT layer?
80 posted on 03/04/2010 5:31:33 PM PST by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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