[meteorite-list] New Research Strengthens Asteroid Impact as Cause of Dinosaur Extinctions

[Paul H.]

Fresh Clues In Dinosaur Whodunit Point To Asteroid
by Adam Cole, All Things Consdiered, February 7, 2013 
http://www.npr.org/2013/02/07/171170142/fresh-clues-in-dinosaur-whodunit-point-to-asteroid

Asteroid Impact That Killed the Dinosaurs: New 
Evidence. LiveScience.com, February 6, 2012
http://www.livescience.com/26933-chicxulub-cosmic-impact-dinosaurs.html

New Evidence Strengthens Argument That Dinosaurs 
Died As Result of Asteroid Impact (New study says 
cosmic impact, dinosaur extinction were 'synchronous 
events') by Jason Koebler, US News,
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/02/07/new-evidence-strengthens-argument-that-dinosaurs-died-as-result-of-asteroid-impact

After the Dinosaurs Died This Furball Started the Next 
Big Thing, Wired news, February 8, 2013
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/mammals-and-dinosaurs/

The papers are,

Palike, H. 2013, Impact and Extinction. Science.
vol. 339 no. 6120 pp. 655-656
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6120/655.summary

Renne, P. R., a. L. Deino, F. J. Hilgen, K. F. Kuiper,
D. F. Mark, W. S. Mitchell III, L. E. Morgan, R. Mundil,
and J.  Smit, 2013, Time Scales of Critical Events 
Around the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary. Science.
vol. 339, no. 6120, pp,. 684-687.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6120/684.abstract

O'Leary, M. A., J. I. Bloch, J. J. Flynn, and many others, 2013, 
The Placental Mammal Ancestor and the Post–K-Pg Radiation 
of Placentals. Science. vol. 339, no. 6120, pp. 662-667
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6120/662.abstract

Best wishes,

Paul H.