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Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.astro
Subject: Re: Mass extinctions
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Date: Wed, 1-Apr-87 17:02:15 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  1 17:02:15 1987
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Reply-To: pmk@prometheus.UUCP (Paul M Koloc)
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Keywords: T'ain't funny  it's AWSOME.
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In article <1489@kontron.UUCP> cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:

>1. No great surprise, but the estimates for one of the Canadian astroblemes
>is 17,500,000 megatons.  (No, not 17.5 megatons -- 17.5 gigatons).

Hmmmm!   If they hit the ground (terra firma), I thought that would make
it "terra".  No!                 A million mega ia a ***TERA****.     

        But for the dinosaurum  ---  18 "Terror" ton :-)

                 How many megapounds is that? 
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