[meteorite-list] Meteorite Impact article

[Jerry]

"But it can't happen again"
train wreck
Jerry Flaherty
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>

> A friend here in Oro Valley just sent this to me, thought I would share 

> for what it might be worth.  See link for complete article and cartoon.

>

> Twink Monrad

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> Southwest Archaeology Today for Jan. 8, 2008

>

> Southwestern Archaeology Making the News - A Service of the Center For 

> Desert

> Archaeology

>

> - The Possibility that Meteorite Impacts may have Affected Northern 

> Paleolithic

> Populations is the Topic of Lecture Series in Santa Fe: Truly 

> revolutionary

> ideas are not very common these days, but one is peeking up above the 

> horizon of

> North American prehistory. Dr. Richard Firestone, an isotope physicist 

> from the

> Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, has uncovered evidence for cosmic collisions 

> at

> times that would have influenced humans and their environment. Impacts at 

> 39,000

> and 12,900 years ago devastated portions of the northern hemisphere, 

> treating

> the ice-age megafauna to smaller versions of the type of shock that 

> contributed

> to the extinction of the dinosaurs. The 12,900 BP impact may have changed 

> the

> course of the cultural as well as natural history of North America, and 

> the

> possibility is challenging accepted views of Paleoindian archaeology.

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>

> <http://www.cdarc.org/sat/sky_is_falling.pdf>http://www.cdarc.org/sat/sky_is_falling.pdf

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