[meteorite-list] Exploding asteroid theory strengthened by new evidence located in Ohio, Indiana

[Mr EMan]

> (wondering myself where the last two replies went.)

> Darren said that a lack of crater made this news item

> suspect.

> 

> What I said was:

> The researcher did say this was an aerial burst and be it

> remembered that Tunguska didn’t leave a crater (else

> minor one) and it wasn’t exploding over what at the time

> was around 2miles/ 3kms of ice sheet.

> 

> I suspect the reporter is amiss for not providing

> specifics.  Perhaps they were too hyper or too stupored and

> in trying to soundbite a subject they probably knew little

> about co-mingled a lot terms.  

> 

> The researcher was discussing dust of micro-nano size

> collected in glacial sediments/out flow channels vic the

> terminal moraine(my words).  I don’t believe the

> researcher was implying that the kimberlite-derived

> diamonds , nor the gold and silver ores mined in Canada 

> are related to the dust.--only that the epicenter could

> have been over some mining districts.

> 

> This ties  well into the material that E.P. Grondine

> already posted about the decimation of mammoth and human

> populations at the 12000± year mark in northern North

> America.  I am a wee surprised that there was no mention of

> the spheroid containing black mats found in similar

> deposits.  This is building evidence that the Younger Dryas

> interval was triggered by a cometary encounter which caused

> a global cooling event lasting 1200 ± years.

> 

> Elton