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From: saouter@irisa.UUCP (saouter yannick)
Newsgroups: sci.astro,sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Asteroids and Dinosaurs (was Re: asteroid almost hits earth)
Message-ID: <1216@irisa.UUCP>
Date: 18 May 89 13:16:50 GMT
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In article <13111@ut-emx.UUCP>, ethan@ut-emx.UUCP (Ethan Tecumseh Vishniac) writes:
> It is also true that this is not the most dramatic mass extinction in the
> fossil record. 

Such collisions occurs about every 50 000 000 years and I've heard that others
species have disappeared as suddenly as the dinosaurs did, so earlier
collisions might be the cause for that, too.

Does anyone knows others example of strange disappearance ?