[meteorite-list] Comet hit Britain in mid sixth century, AD?

2006-07-22 Thread bernd . pauli
"One ancient Khumric record, the Brut Tyssilio, speaks of, 'a star of great magnitude and brilliance with a single beam shining from it. At the end of this beam was a ball of fire, spread out in the shape of a dragon'..." Hello List, Maybe no comet really hit Britain in mid 6th century and we a

Re: [meteorite-list] Comet hit Britain in mid sixth, century, AD? - OT, only volcanism in this mail.

2006-07-22 Thread Göran Axelsson
Iceland have had some large volcanic events over it's history. The most devastating one since the colonisation was the Laki eruption in 1783 which killed 20% of the population on Iceland. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laki There are no archeological evidences that Iceland was colonised earlier

[meteorite-list] Comet hit Britain in mid sixth century AD?

2006-07-21 Thread Paul Barford
A new theory suggests a comet impacting Britain in the mid sixth century AD was responsible for the ascendency of the English Comments anyone? Has anyone read anything by the cited astronomers/astrophysicists on the topic or is this a case of "when I suggested a comet to them the other day, t