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From: chiaraviglio@husc2.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.astro
Subject: Re: Mass extinctions
Message-ID: <1244@husc2.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Apr-87 02:43:46 EST
Article-I.D.: husc2.1244
Posted: Mon Apr  6 02:43:46 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 9-Apr-87 03:21:14 EST
References: <6760@alice.uUCp> <1489@kontron.UUCP>
Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Ctr., Cambridge, MA
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Xref: utgpu sci.bio:244 sci.astro:813
Summary: Inconsistent numbers

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).

	I know it's late at night, but it seems to me that 17,500,000 megatons
is 17.5 teratons, not 17.5 gigatons.  Which number do you mean?

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