Year: 2022

MASSIVE IMPACTOR. “Our hypothesis explains the composition of the largest confirmed impact crater in Earth’s history as well as the largest one within the last million years.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82320-2 View in LinkedIn

OTHER CANDIDATES. “It predicts a larger proportion of impactors with carbonaceous chondritic compositions than would be expected from meteorite falls of main-belt asteroids.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82320-2 View in LinkedIn

LEAD CANDIDATE. “Strong evidence suggests that the Chicxulub impact led to the K/T mass extinction event, which was the largest in the past ~250 Myr and brought about the demise of the dinosaurs.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82320-2 View in LinkedIn

OTHER CANDIDATES. “Our hypothesis predicts that other Chicxulub-size craters on Earth are more likely to correspond to an impactor with a carbonaceous chondritc composition than expected from the carbonaceous chondritc composition fraction of MBAs.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82320-2 View in LinkedIn

PARTIAL INTERCONNECTEDNESS. Systemism (“everything hangs together with some other thing or things”) steers a middle course between holism (“all things hang together”) and atomism (“everything goes its own way”). No part of the universe is completely isolated but every thing is isolated in some respect from other things.” https://lnkd.in/eZVUsMdz View in LinkedIn

Stunning Hubble shot. https://lnkd.in/eWq3Y_st View in LinkedIn

Visit my new IG portfolio and my website https://lnkd.in/e2sqjACN " "nigelfleming.com" "The theme is NATURE WRIT LARGE where I combine visual arts with scientific knowledge." "#portfolio #nature #sculpture #biology #genetics #quantumphysics #art View in LinkedIn

SECOND COMET FINGERPRINT. “The Zhamanshin crater, the largest confirmed impact crater on Earth formed in the last ~ Myr (an order of magnitude smaller in radius than Chicxulub), shows evidence that the impactor may have had a carbonaceous chondritc composition, providing support to our model.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82320-2 View in LinkedIn

HISTORICAL FAVORITE CRATER. “The Chicxulub impact crater is part of a select group of unique geological sites, being a natural laboratory to investigate crater formation processes and global effects of large-scale impacts.” https://lnkd.in/eqAYpQg2 View in LinkedIn

ONE OF THREE. “Chicxulub is one of only three multi-ring craters documented in the terrestrial record and impact has been related to the global environmental/ climatic effects and mass extinction that mark the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary.” https://lnkd.in/eqAYpQg2 View in LinkedIn