Double meteorite strike 'killed dinosaurs' ?

And I'm sure that there will be another study done to determine what truly killed the dinosaurs, and another after that.

I remember hearing about this idea at least about 5 years ago. Must be slow news lately.

Yet, according to Keller, G., Abramovich, S., Berner, Z. and Adatte, T. in their 2009 article "Biotic Effects of the Chicxulub Impact, K-T catastrophe and sea level change in Texas", even with two impacts separated by thousands of years it still took 300,000 years for the dinosaurs to die out. Talk about a slow death. Biotic effects of the Chicxulub impact, the K-T event and sea level change uponplanktic foraminifera were evaluated in a new core and outcrops along the Brazos River, Texas, about 1500 km from the Chicxulub impact crater on Yucatan, Mexico. Sediment deposition occurred in a middl... [More]

Yet, according to Keller, G., Abramovich, S., Berner, Z. and Adatte, T. in their 2009 article "Biotic Effects of the Chicxulub Impact, K-T catastrophe and sea level change in Texas", even with two impacts separated by thousands of years it still took 300,000 years for the dinosaurs to die out. Talk about a slow death. Source cormac wow, i always thought they died right away...

wow, i always thought they died right away... Yeah, turns out the lingered for a while, but never recovered. Makes sense when you think how several other creatures did survive, though many other did not of course. Whatever would wipe out all species at the same time would wipe out all life on the planet. Dinosaurs did eventually die out completely, except for birds.

I could have swore that there was also a huge crater in the Indian Ocean that was also linked to the extinction of the dinosaurs. :/

Before many days i saw a news about a meteor strike somewhere in India that also responsible for the extinction of Dinosaurs.This meteor was very big. I dont know it that is true or not......

Well, it's probably farfetched, but the two meteors could have been at one point a huge one that broke in pieces from an impact in space with another object. The initial impact could have rerouted the pieces towards Earth, having one piece to directly impact the first time around while the second piece just missed, but was caught by the gravity pull from nearby planets or even the sun. The second piece could have then done a complete circle but shifted during the cycle, only to impact Earth some millennia later. But I'm just thinking outside the box.

Sameer & Andami, I'm pretty impressed! Not many know of the Indian Ocean impact! Obviouly what the BBC doesn't know is that there were one or two, but SIX impacts 65mya. The Yukatan impact is small at just 120km as opposed to "Shiva" the Indian Ocean impact crater, being about 680km if I remember correctly! I am astounded that scientists still debate the K/T! They endlessly argure over who is right! Is this what science has been reduced to? A screaming match in who is right and wrong? What ever happened to working together for a common goal? Truth? Facts? Nope! Not any more unfortunately! ... [More]