Re: "Dinosaurs Died Within Hours After Asteroid Hit Earth..."

[Dora Smith <villandra@austin.rr.com>]

Under Paul Sereno's name on the National Geographic web site, an article
comes up (written by someone else) that argues that a meteorite impact
couldn't have instantly killed the dinosaurs, and it was the hydrogen
sulfate (I think) gas that got into the atmosphere as a result, generating a
greenhouse effect.

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, Texas
villandra@austin.rr.com
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Subject: "Dinosaurs Died Within Hours After Asteroid Hit Earth..."


> I don't think anyone has posted this as yet (and in the spirit of take
that, Gerta Keller):
>
> http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2004/168.html
>
> "Study: Dinosaurs Died Within Hours After Asteroid Hit Earth 65 Million
Years Ago"
> "May 24, 2004"
> "According to new research led by a University of Colorado at Boulder
geophysicist, a giant asteroid that hit the coast of Mexico 65 million years
ago probably incinerated all the large dinosaurs that were alive at the time
in only a few hours, and only those organisms already sheltered in burrows
or in water were left alive." (SNIP)
>
> Mary
>
>