Re: [meteorite-list] KT extinction impacts

2011-04-27 Thread Sterling K. Webb
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Re: [meteorite-list] KT extinction impacts

2011-04-27 Thread Sterling K. Webb
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Re: [meteorite-list] KT extinction impacts

2011-04-26 Thread Sterling K. Webb
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[meteorite-list] KT extinction impacts

2011-04-26 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi all - Ahem. Jay, you are right that it is a hypothesis that the KT impacts were from fragments of the same comet. The other explanation, and a far more likely one, now that you mention it, is that Clube and Napier's injection mechanism was at work, and multiple comets hit at roughly the