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End of the "Lone Asteroid" Theory?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the this-changes-everything-and-nobody-cares dept.

hussar writes "This BBC article reports on research that suggests the dinosaurs were not killed off by the Chicxulub asteroid's immediate effects but ultimately fell to evironmental stresses caused by a second asteroid that hit about 300,000 years later. The second impact may have been in the Indian Ocean."

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  1. Religious fanatics, unite! The end is very nigh! by commo1 · · Score: 2, Troll

    THIS will be going around the religious channels like wildfire. They will be pointing out how foolish the "scientific community" has been for the past 100 years of this theory and show how the bible forsaw "a deluge of heavenly matter from above". This will be going on for centuries from now. Cataclysmic, to be sure.