Giant Meteorites Slammed Earth Around A.D. 500?

National Geographic News ^ | 03 Feb 2010 | Richard A. Lovett

[fanfan]

Was the earth going through the galatic plane (or whatever it’s called) at the time?

[SunkenCiv]

That happens about every 26 million years. Or somethin’. :’) Now I feel I should look that up, but I want to get out of the house sometime tonight. ;’)

[blam]

The Dark Ages: Were They Darker Than We Imagined?

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The Dark Ages: Were They Darker Than We Imagined?

[Mike Darancette]

Abbott and colleagues argue that several climate events during the Holocene epoch—11,500 years ago to the present—were actually triggered by impacts, and therefore such large impacts are more common than currently believed.

Tick, tick, tick .... tick.

[gleeaikin]

Actually Cassiodorus (sp?) in the first 1/2 of the 500s reported about much strange astronomical/weather activity of a harmful nature. Googe him for more. I think this was also the time of the Plague of Justinian. The plague may have been caused by famine and dislocation upsetting the rat populations around the world.

At any rate, it is true that Rome was already in decline, but this did not help Western civilization. Another factoid. I always wondered why that Carolingian blossoming of Charlemagne did not take off and spread civilization. Then I read in a food and nutrition book that the 100 years after his death were characterized by at least 30 famines, including some that lasted 2 or 3 years. Also weird weather contributed to ergot poisoning of rye in Northern Europe and, along with the introducton of the barberry bush, by Arabs in Southern Europe to wheat rust.

[SunkenCiv]

In Horus, a journal published by the late David Griffard, vol II no 1 (1985), Barry Fell was interviewed. Alas, DG went down in a private plane after the seventh issue. Among other things:

"In the middle of Australia there is a group of three or four meteorite craters called the Henley craters. They're like the Arizona meteorite crater -- not so big, but there are several of them -- and, like in Arizona, the land was scattered with pieces of iron meteorite. I think the [inaudible] dating very slow growing desert plants. They believe that the date is about 5000 years ago -- the formation of the craters. The Aboriginal name for this area is the 'Place Where The Sun Walked on the Earth' -- they must have seen it!"

[tet68]

the same spot where Abbott found the two sea-surface depressions.

Just picking at it, but shouldn’t they be called
sea-BED depressions ?

Or does sea water do strange stuff in the southern
hemisphere?

[SunkenCiv]

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• Plague Helped Bring Down Roman Empire [2013]
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• Tale Of (King) Arthur Points To Comet Catastrophe [2006]
• Why 536 was 'the worst year to be alive' [2018]
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