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- From: cdesley@aol.com (CDesley)
- Newsgroups: alt.paranet.ufo
- Subject: Re: Death Star theory
- Date: 9 Jun 1996 14:36:38 -0400
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- I searched the journal Science on the web and found this abstract:
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- A Piece of the Dinosaur Killer Found?
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- Richard A. Kerr
- Geologists may have found a piece of the rock that killed the dinosaurs. A
- sample of 65-million-year-old ooze from the North Pacific has yielded what
- seems to be a fossil meteorite, just millimeters across. It fell into the
- sediments at the same geologic instant as a 10-kilometer object struck the
- Yucatan, probably triggering the mass extinction that wiped out the
- dinosaurs. Assuming the rock is a piece of the shattered impacter, its
- composition implies that the dinosaur killer was an asteroid, not a comet,
- as some researchers have speculated.
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- Science, Volume 271, Number 5257, Issue of 29 March 1996, p. 1806
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- I guess this doesn't help the Death Star theory.
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- Still, I like the idea of looking for nearby companion stars and planets.
- You never know what you might find.
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