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Old October 3rd 07, 02:18 AM posted to alt.astronomy
Saul Levy Saul Levy is offline
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Default New Mass Extinction Asteroid Theory!

Not any time soon, foolish WartPlugs! Certainly not by 2012.

Saul Levy


On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:06:49 -0000, Warhol wrote:

On Oct 2, 10:02 am, Double-A wrote:
"The impactor believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs and other life
forms on Earth some 65 million years ago has been traced back to a
breakup event in the main asteroid belt. A joint U.S.-Czech team from
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and Charles University in Prague
suggests that the parent object of asteroid (298) Baptistina disrupted
when it was hit by another large asteroid, creating numerous large
fragments that would later create the Chicxulub crater on the Yucatan
Peninsula as well as the prominent Tycho crater found on the Moon."

http://www.physlink.com/News/070907A...Extinction.cfm

Double-A


the giant will collide with planet Earth...