[meteorite-list] Chicxulub was the small one

Spaceguard mail at spaceguarduk.com
Mon Apr 25 14:45:19 EDT 2011


"Chicxulub was the small impact. Another larger fragment of the comet 
hit at Shiva about 500,000 years later. That was the impact that finally 
killed off the dinosaurs."

Theory, not fact.  It's always useful to distinguish between the two, 
especially on a list with wide readership!

Jay Tate
The Spaceguard Centre



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