Re: Source of KT asteroid pdf

[Adam <adam@crowlspace.com>]

Hi Jim

Beat me to it. Another helpful factor is that the velocity change needed 
to drop things closer to the Sun is actually lower in the EK Belt than 
in the Main Belt.

Iridium is a pretty clear signal that it was an iron-rich asteroid, so 
icy cometoids might be out of the picture. I have heard there might be 
evidence of more than one impactor.

What about all you Dino Doctors? Who believes the K/T extinction was due 
to an impact (or two)? Who believes it was volcanism? Something else?

Adam

jrc wrote:

> It's not that simple.  It depends both upon the distribution of the 
> total volumes of matter within the two volumes of space, and the fact 
> that perturbations resulting in elliptical orbits cause matter to 
> funnel into a smaller volume of space as they approach the sun (and 
> Earth).
>
> JimC
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Chure" <danchure@easilink.com>
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>
> > If both inner asteroid belt and Kuiper belt collisions produced 
> > impactor candidates,  I suppose  given the vastly greater distances 
> > and thus volume of space and  much smaller target area (Earth) in 
> > that larger volume of space, there is a higher likelihood that an 
> > object from the inner belt would strike our planet.