Panel Discussion #8 Clovis Comet

• Questions West where radioactivity comes into play
• Carolyn Shoemaker salutes West's fine presentation from the night before
• Ask for more substantiation bf "we can truly accept this idea is an impact"
• Suggest fragments of comet seem too large
• If happened would need to be an airburst with dramatic effects, not certain if those claimed are appropriate
• Will not dismiss airburst out of hand

• 4:47 Boslough takes mic
• Boslough has number of things he like to say
• His panel side are skeptics not cynics
• Not judgmental, just Sagan-like careful
• Notes that David Morrison understands statistical probability
• Accepts that probability is not determined by observation
• Card play analogy
• Knows that abrupt climate change is common
• 4-5 kilometer object breaking into a thousand of objects
• Each one 400-500 meters in diameter
• Objects of that size would produce ground impacts

Category:

Science & Technology

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• Clovis
• Comet