Hi, List (and Marco)
Marco, I seem to have a talent for annoying you.
I apologize for annoying you. However, I would like
to point out that my posting was addressed to The List
and to Paul Barford who asked the question in the
first place. I did not even copy you. Could I point
out
: [meteorite-list] Re:Comet hit Britain
in mid sixth century, AD?
Baileys comet impact hypothesis is
quite contested, it certainly is not an
accepted main stream hypothesis. So I
quite surprised by the tone of that
newspaper clipping that suggested so.
The astrophysicist supporting
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:54:04 +0200, you wrote:
Large impact phenomena come with a suit of identifiable things. If there was
such an event in Britain as recent as AD 540, then where are the ejecta
layers,
the dust layers, the spherule layers, the impact glasses, the shocked quartz,
the impact
If you're talking about catastrophic events during the Dark Ages, wasn't
there an episode where major outgassing from volcanoes (fluorine and other
nasty volcanic gases) in Iceland poisoned most of the viable cropland there,
and the effects were felt up to several hundred miles away? I vaguely
Baileys comet impact hypothesis is quite contested, it certainly is not an
accepted main stream hypothesis. So I was quite surprised by the tone of
that
newspaper clipping that suggested so. The astrophysicist supporting it
are, by
the way, astrophysicists with a known fetish for impacts as a
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From: Paul Barford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Re:Comet hit Britain in mid sixth century, AD?
Thanks Marco,
In general, I think the theory is very dubious. The guy
And not be recorded historically except in the most obscure and oblique
fashion? And not leave any apparent geological or botanical effects? I'd
say
the parameters you are looking for would be supernatural.
I think it pretty obvious that if something this size had landed on Ireland
in 530 AD,
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