[meteorite-list] Day From Hell May Have Killed Off Dinosaurs

[Sterling K. Webb]

Hi,

    Not to nitpick at the Reuters man, but...
    The killer asteroid theory was proposed by Luis W. Alvarez (and his son
Walter) in 1980. The gravity data which identifies Chicxulub was gathered
beginning in 1948. Despite a lot of Googling, I can't establish the date when two
was added to two to produce four, but it was in the early-mid-eighties, before
Luis Alvarez's death in 1988.
    For a really nice link to a Chicxulub page (Alan Hildebrand's) with great
pictures, try:
<http://miac.uqac.ca/MIAC/chicxulub.htm>


Sterling K. Webb
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Ron Baalke wrote:

> http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=610337
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> ...Despite opposition from some scientists, the idea that the dinosaurs
> were killed by an asteroid that slammed into Mexico's Yucatan peninsula
> has won general acceptance since it was first mooted in the early 1990s...
>