Re: Re: Impact Scenario/New Ref.

[Bill Adlam <bill.adlam@st-peters.oxford.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 22 May 1995, Tom Holtz wrote:

> >got into trouble by mixing fable with physics. If the Greeks said Aphrodite
> >(the Roman "Venus") sprang full-blown from the brow of Zeus ("Jupiter"),
> 
> No, Aphrodite (from "aphros", foam) came from the sea.  It is Athene (who
> had no classical planet) can from the brow of Zeus!

[preservational bias]

> And, with that, can we get back to dinos?

Certainly.  Does anyone remember a children's book with a title something 
like "A Dinosaur Called Minerva"?  She was a Corythosaurus, and if you've
seen Roman depictions of their version of Pallas Athene/a, you can see why. 
Minerva had a helmet with a fin on the top, just like the Corythosaurus 
crest.
                                                                Bill Adlam