Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 5:54 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Re:Comet hit Britain in mid sixth, century, AD?
Sterling K. Webb wrote:
The scientist you're referring to is Michael Baillie,
an Irish dentrochronologist (not Bailey).
Too many Bailey'/Baillie's around, sorry... And its
: [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
Sterling K. Webb wrote:
The scientist you're referring to is Michael Baillie,
an Irish dentrochronologist (not Bailey).
Too many Bailey'/Baillie's around, sorry... And its dendrochronologist, not
dentrochronologist.
Their suggestion arose from uncovering a 19th century
account of
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
Hi,
.Just as follow-up to Paul's email re the 6th C. possible meteorite, can I
just give you a couple of quotes from The Anglo-Saxon chronicles, which were
contemporary notes compiled over a period starting about 800ad to 1100ad by
the monastic population here in the UK.
First thing that becomes
538(ad): Here 14 days before 1 March the sun grew dark from early morning
until 9am.
(Winchester Mss, Cambridge, Corpus Christie MS173, ff 1(v)32(r))
540: Here on 20 June the sun grew dark and stars appeared for well-nigh half
a hour after 9am
(Winchester Mss, Cambridge, Corpus Christie
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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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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