On Tuesday 16 April 2002 18:03, you wrote: > found on another list... > > interesting article about the effects of a 200 meter asteroid strike in the > ocean. > > A last wave goodbye > http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4391088,00.html > > > ____________________________________________ > Gary L. Nunn > Delaware Ohio > > "Everything that has happened had to > happen. Everything that must happen > cannot be stopped." > - Dwayne Dyer
> How often does such an event occur? Asteroids around 200 metres in size > strike the Earth about once every couple of thousand years. The Atlantic > has about a one-in-10 chance of being the next target. And of hitting water about a 70% chance. So it follows that if we have Pyramids at about 5000 BCE then we have roughly 7000 years of civilization. At .5 meteorite > 200m diameter per 1000y we should have had 4.5 meteorite strikes of that magnitude in "historic" times. Where are those 2 to 7 strikes in the historic and geologic record? The kind of tsunami the article talks about will leave a geologic trace. It leaves a trace in myth and folklore. After the invention of writing, chroniclers record it and it leaves an historic trace as well. Side note: a meteorite driven tsunami and an early city-state makes a nice explanation for those who want a material basis for the Atlantis myth.
