Re: [meteorite-list] Astronomers Suggest Comet To Blame for 6th-Century 'Nuclear Winter'

2004-02-04 Thread Mark Ferguson
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Astronomers Suggest Comet To Blame for 6th-Century 'Nuclear Winter' Hi, The comet theory is not new nor original with these researchers. There is a book published 4-5 years ago by Baille (title now forgotten by me) that advance the same explanation for the same

RE: [meteorite-list] Astronomers Suggest Comet To Blame for 6th-Century 'Nuclear Winter'

2004-02-03 Thread Bernhard \Rendelius\ Rems
I mean, do they offer some PROOF for their theory? A plume is nothing that would have gone unobserved by the eye (left alone a comet exploding in the sky) - and as much as I know, the mini ice age at that time wasn't a global occurence, but rather a european one - at least to my knowledge. There

Re: [meteorite-list] Astronomers Suggest Comet To Blame for 6th-Century 'Nuclear Winter'

2004-02-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, The comet theory is not new nor original with these researchers. There is a book published 4-5 years ago by Baille (title now forgotten by me) that advance the same explanation for the same phenomenon. The bad years of 536-540 AD are a world-wide event. In fact, it seems to have been