Hole in Asteroid Belt Reveals Extinction Asteroid

eldavojohn writes "Further evidence for the asteroid mass extinction theory has been discovered as a break in the main asteroid belt of our solar system. From the article, "A joint U.S.-Czech team from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and Charles University in Prague suggests that the parent object of asteroid (298) Baptistina disrupted when it was hit by another large asteroid, creating numerous large fragments that would later create the Chicxulub crater on the Yucatan Peninsula as well as the prominent Tycho crater found on the Moon.""

Alternative theories???

[click2005]

a break in the main asteroid belt of our solar system

The Flying Spaghetti Monster was making meatballs gets my vote.

Cue The Godfather violin music

[nizo]

At approximately 170 kilometers in diameter and having characteristics similar to carbonaceous chondrite meteorites, the Baptistina parent body resided in the innermost region of the asteroid belt when it was hit by another asteroid estimated to be 60 kilometers in diameter. This catastrophic impact produced what is now known as the Baptistina asteroid family, a cluster of asteroid fragments with similar orbits.

Ok lets all hope we don't get another visit from the hit men of our solar system, the Baptistina family.

I've Been Foiled!

[eldavojohn]

... then make a Slashdot account and submit it there.

You caught me. Oh how you've ruined years of careful plotting and planning. I am not eldavojohn, I am actually a Czech researcher named Dr. David Vokrouhlicky. I have slowly been posting careful karma whoring posts [slashdot.org] and submitting story after story [slashdot.org] all in the name of eventually publishing my research and getting it on the front page of Slashdot.

Yes, it was a long arduous endeavor. Gaining people's trust, making foes of others. It was an ingenious plan to boost the popularity and public acceptance of my paper ... and I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids!

Well, the gig is up, that hole was actually created by Rumfoord and his dog, Kazak. Ohhh, no, I've wasted my life! Who would have thought such a ridiculously elaborate and circuitous plan to tilt the scientific world towards accepting my theories based on computer models could have been foiled by an internet user named Cheezymadman!?

Hole

[Anonymous Coward]

Even a hole that big doesn't scare me as much as goatse's.

That's all? Earth and Moon?

[haakondahl]

It didn't create sunspots and the Great Red Spot? I think these folks are not imaginative enough.

Awfully Confusing For Us On Alpha Centauri

[jeffkjo1]

Further evidence for the asteroid mass extinction theory has been discovered as a break in the main asteroid belt of our solar system.

This is just like slashdot, submitters and editors never thinking about those of us on extra-solar planets in the Andromeda Galaxy. Everyone in the Milky Way is so planetary-centric. Would adding the extra clarification take long? No, and it would save a lot of headaches... seriously, I've got six heads out here too, do you realize how much Tylenol©®(TM) it takes to kill the pain?

Re:Cue The Godfather violin music

[Junior J. Junior III]

Say, that's a real nice planet you got there. It'd be a shame if something were to happen to it...

Re:No crap

[Anonymous Coward]

1. There are more inter-system collisions than we realize. Example: Schoemaker-Levi

Data is not the plural form of anecdote.

Re:hmm

[Hal_Porter]

If it's not true then why aren't we up to our asses in velociraptors?

voids are the new black

[Anonymous Coward]

So let me get this straight, dinosaurs became extinct because of an asteroid belt buckle?

I guess the earth got caught with it's pants down..

More likely

[Creepyguywithastick]

Sephiroth did it.

God created asteroids

[DragonTHC]

He also created hemorrhoids.

Re:hmm

[Cytlid]

You beat me to the pool analogy punch.

  I was going to say, "Einstein was right, God doesn't play dice. He plays pool. Third planet, corner pocket!"

Re:Alternative theories???

[rat10177sd]

Nah, it's the Vogons putting in that Hyperspace freeway. they'll be here after they finish that part of the job.

"Don't try to outweird me, three-eyes. I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal." - Zaphod Beeblebrox in "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"

Sith Lord Vader

[Anonymous Coward]

It was Lord Vader and his super Star Destroyer blasting the hole through while chasing the Falcon.

Re:hmm

[bhsurfer]

Perhaps an airplane full of "missing" nukes hit it.

Hole in Asteroid Belt Reveals . . .

[moeinvt]

We'll see more holes appear in the belt as the universe expands.

Re:Hole in Asteroid Belt Reveals . . .

[BenBoy]

> We'll see more holes appear in the belt as the universe expands. Funny, I usually put more holes in my belt when my universe contracts; when it expands, I let it out a bit ...

Re:hmm

[achilles777033]

We are. You might recognize them better using the term 'Pigeon' however. Or so one theory goes :P