Collision in Asteroid belt may have condemned dinosaurs

[h2ouniverse]

Btw,<br /><br />SDC hyped the Aurigids. Does someone know whether one has been observed?

 

[3488]

You are more than welcome freind.<br /><br />I was curious about the parent asteroid, so I did a little research.<br /><br />Sure has been cut down to size a bit, from 170 KM to only 30 KM <img src="/images/icons/crazy.gif" /> .<br /><br />Apparently there have been fragments found from Chicxulub & they are also<br />carbonaceous.<br /><br />Whatever, it looks like a type C asteroid was involved, or a comet with a type C core<br />under an icy mantle!!!<br /><br />Asteroid 298 Baptistina does seem a good match.<br /><br />Andrew Brown. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>

 

[MeteorWayne]

Yes, the Aurigids produced a short but strong outburst a bit before the predicted time.<br />There's a thread in Ask the Astronomer, I'll bump it. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>

 

[astroguard]

Here is a link to the Southwest Research Institute <br />news release about this matter.