Jan M Smit from 980 Saint Germain Rd, Chula Vista, CA 91913, age 98, Phone: (619) 482-8034

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Scientists uncover fossils from moments after Earth's apocalyptic asteroid collision

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"It solves the question of whether dinosaurs went extinct at exactly that level or whether they declined before," Jan Smit, a paleontologist and co-author on the paper,told the New Yorker. "And this is the first time we see direct victims."

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Apr 01, 2019

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Catastrophic New Details From The 'Day The Dinosaurs Died' Uncovered in Fossils

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Hell Creek is more than 2,000 miles from the Chicxulub crater. But a hail of glass beads, called tektites, rained there within 15 minutes of the impact, said study author Jan Smit, a paleontologist at Vrije University in Amsterdam who also was an early discoverer of iridium at the K-Pg boundary.

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Mar 30, 2019

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66-million-year-old deathbed linked to dinosaur-killing meteor: Fossil site preserves animals killed within minutes of meteor impact

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Richards and Walter Alvarez, a UC Berkeley Professor of the Graduate School who 40 years ago first hypothesized that a comet or asteroid impact caused the mass extinction, were called in by DePalma and Dutch scientist Jan Smit to consult on the rain of glass beads and the tsunami-like waves that bur

Jan Smit, a retired professor of sedimentary geology from Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam in The Netherlands who is considered the world expert on tektites from the impact, joined DePalma to analyze and date the tektites from the Tanis site. Many were found in near perfect condition embedded in ambe

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Mar 29, 2019

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Dinosaurs Went Extinct Almost Immediately After Mexican Asteroid Strike

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Researchers Paul Renne, Jan Smit and colleagues determined that the Yucatan impact event happened 66,038,000 years ago give or take 11,000 years. It's an extraordinarily precise measurement, as it was only a few decades ago that the margins for error were measured in the millions of years.

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Feb 08, 2013

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