[FPSPACE] Fear and Loathing on the Launch Pad

[E.P. Grondine]

>You are not saying that one of the most researched ELEs -
>the Chicxulub impact - was caused by a comet, are you?

Yes. 

In point of fact, we have a sample of the KT impactor.
If you image google KT-fossil you should see an 
image of the fossil carbonaceous chondrite (comet)
recovered from a core.

In other words, Morrison's impact hazard estimates are
a "crock" as we say here in the US, and Clube and
Napier were correct.

We will likely be in the debris stream of Comet 
Schwassmann Wachmann 3 in the year 2022, 7 years 
before Asteroid Apophis comes near in 2029.

E.P. Grondine
Man and Impact in the Americas



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