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But seriously, folks: Harvard bangs a big fat Platinum nail in YDB critic coffin

BBC The Mail  Phys.org Crickets Stein B. Jacobsen? and here and here Program Note: More recent posts can be found below Large Pt anomaly in the Greenland ice core points to a cataclysm at the onset of Younger Dryas The impact hypothesis (11), once declared dead (12, 13), recently gained new support from the discovery of siliceous scoria-like objects (SLOs) with global distribution, which…
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2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question

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Mahaney & Keiser 2013

The breakup in space of a comet or asteroid prior to impact could produce a surface or oceanic impact by the largest object, and hundreds of smaller fragments could create air-bursts affecting an entire hemisphere (Bunch et al. 2012). Approximately 90% of all ejecta from the main impact would fall within five crater radii, although fine material is expected to be random distributed over a much…
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Charles Appleton Day

2021 Tall el-Hammam study makes final Jeopardy! question