Hole in Asteroid Belt Reveals Extinction Asteroid

eldavojohn writes "Further evidence for the asteroid mass extinction theory has been discovered as a break in the main asteroid belt of our solar system. From the article, "A joint U.S.-Czech team from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and Charles University in Prague suggests that the parent object of asteroid (298) Baptistina disrupted when it was hit by another large asteroid, creating numerous large fragments that would later create the Chicxulub crater on the Yucatan Peninsula as well as the prominent Tycho crater found on the Moon.""

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hmm

[thatskinnyguy]

This article was written on the basis of a suggestion? Please get back to me when you have facts. They may be onto something.

so... it was an asteroid then?

[catmistake]

I'm sorry... when was it decided that an asteroid from the Asteroid Belt caused the mass extinction????? Is this canon now? Nothing seems to explain the periodic extinctions (~26 million years) as tidely (heh) as an undiscovered star (Nemesis). Nearly all stars are in binary or larger systems, single star systems are quite unique. I think there's a small star-sized mass nearby, and every 26 million years its orbit takes it close enough to the Oort cloud or Kuiper Belt to disrupt the crazy things in the outer rim, sending them spiraling towards the Sun. Nemesis deadly perigee sends enough projectiles cascading toward the sun that one usually hits the Earth... You'll see I'm right in about 12 million years, and then 26 million years after that... just you wait.