[Palter]

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[Virginia Ridgerunner]

So, it was either Krakatoa exploding or two massive asteroid strikes that caused the Dark Ages? Cool!!!!

[RexBeach]

I thought that was Barney Frank?

[CholeraJoe]

Meteorite iron was very much in demand during the Dark Ages. It was said that swords forged of iron from heaven were invincible in battle. Legend had it that Excalibur itself was forged from meteorite iron.

[wastedyears]

Uh, 11 miles is not a tiny difference. It’s like the difference between a .22 on a necklace and the 30mm Vulcan cannon.

[LRS]

“Paging Velikosky. Paging Immanuel Velikovsky. This is your medium calling...”

[Tallguy]

What's more, around the same time the Roman Empire was falling apart in Europe, Aborigines in Australia may have witnessed and recorded the double impact, she said.

The only historical event that is more debated than "the Extinction of the Dinosaurs" is "the Fall of Rome". Sheesh!

[Little Bill]

Your Territory.

[r9etb]

If a large impactor had broken up on its final approach to Earth, he said, the fragments would still have been very, very close together when they landed: "It essentially will behave as one piece," creating a single crater, Boslough said.

But if it had broken up slightly earlier -- due to solar heating, say, or gravitational stresses -- that argument loses its force.

[Ptarmigan]

The climate change took place around 535 AD, while the asteroid impact happened in 500 AD. Don’t know if there is any documented climate change around 500 AD.

[SunkenCiv]

Wowzo, thanks Palter!

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Thanks Palter.

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[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.