Stop the world, I want to get off:
July 5, 2001 12:52 PM Subscribe
Stop the world, I want to get off: A group of scientists thinks that a "wobble" in the orbits of Earth and Mercury may have attracted an asteroid, and not a stray comet, to hit the Earth and wipe out the dinosaurs.
Oh, yes, but you didn't see it. It was one sexy wobble.
It's really sort of irrelevant. Asteroids and comets hit the Earth, well, all the time -- geologically speaking. This doesn't much change the odds of what the next one will be. And as far as the big one that kilt the dinos, I'd be a lot more comfortable with physical, geologic evidence. Comets and asteroids leave different kinds.
posted by dhartung at 3:51 PM on July 5, 2001
It's really sort of irrelevant. Asteroids and comets hit the Earth, well, all the time -- geologically speaking. This doesn't much change the odds of what the next one will be. And as far as the big one that kilt the dinos, I'd be a lot more comfortable with physical, geologic evidence. Comets and asteroids leave different kinds.
posted by dhartung at 3:51 PM on July 5, 2001
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"...Number of moons: 0. Global magnetic field: yes".
posted by Vetinari at 2:07 PM on July 5, 2001