Bonjour mes amis, according to Spaceflightnow.com it was an Everest size meteor.
I've a reputation for being a bit picky when it comes to some of the info we're fed & Everest size meteor doesn't cut it.
Meteors don't cause craters. meteors can't cause craters & meteors never will cause craters. However, if it was a meteorite ?
you lot are a bunch of cynics as according to the author of the article:
"Many experts scoffed at the idea of a giant meteor causing the mass extinction between the Permian and Triassic periods, but Poreda points out that many also scoffed at the idea that a meteor was responsible for a later and lesser extinction at the Cretatious/Tertiary boundary that marks the end of the dinosaurs. Now, the impact theory is largely accepted."
Not by everyone you cry ! also:
"Coincidentally, the Bedout crater, at 120 miles across, is almost exactly the same size as the Chicxulub crater in the Caribbean that has been identified as the impact site of the meteorite that dealt the dinosaurs their death blow. It's likely that the bodies that struck at each site were of the same size and traveling at similar speeds."
I love "almost exactly the same", it's like "it's unique except for the other" & as they were apparently the same size & velocity why did one cause a "Great dying" & the other a "lesser extinction", bad luck I guess.
what ever happened to a chain of events ?
Beware of science reports bearing great numbers !
Watching the Learning Zone/Open university as you do I lucked upon a programme concerning climate change & the models predicting global temperature rise over the next 50 years (programme was couple of years ago).
the figure of 3 deg.C used by the media was the average figure predicted by a U.S. model (4 deg.C) & UK university model (2 deg.C), very scientific.
Many factors (incuding solar output) were ignored due to lack of data !!
anyway, all of it's rubbish as there's no mention of any of this in the bible :x
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