Comet or Meteorite Impact Events in 1178AD?

SIS Conference ^ | 1-26-2003 | Emilio Spedicato

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GGG Ping.

Patched together from an old thread and re-posted.

[AntiGuv]

Very neat. I've only just scanned the article, will definitely read it in full later, but where precisely is the comet/meteor supposed to have landed?

[Cicero]

BTT

[Dog Gone]

Interesting speculation.

[Prospero]

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"It is interesting to notice that a similar peak is also present at about half the 6th century, a time when, according to several Byzanthin historians quoted by Gibbon [5], e. g. Malala, Procopius and Theophanes, many scaring comets appeared in the sky. That was also the time of the great Justinian plague, which decimated the population of the Mediterranean region, killing up to 90% of the population according to some estimates. This depopulation was certainly a major factor which facilitated the Arab expansion some three generations later. "

The Dark Ages: Were They Darker Than We Imagined?

[umgud]

Have you read "Worlds in Collision" by Imanuel Velikosvky (sp?)?

[G.Mason]

A most amazing article and wonderful post.

My thanks

[WestVirginiaRebel]

What about the "Mini-Ice Age" which occured in the Late Middle Ages? Could something like this have cause what we would now call nuclear winter effect?

[LachlanMinnesota]

Part 2 - "Decimate" means to destroy every tenth part - therefore, when 90% of the population is killed, then there is no "decimation"...

Interesting article...and to think people still call on the stars for guidance after all of these years.

[FreedomCalls]

[FreedomCalls]

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"Have you read "Worlds in Collision" by Imanuel Velikosvky (sp?)?"

Yes. Many years ago.

Astronomers Unravel A Mystery Of The Dark Ages

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[LachlanMinnesota]

It is always a mystery to me how we as historians cannot so easily accept historical events or processes which we have not seen ourselves...so muych of our history is "polictical" or "religious," and we tend to downplay the role that our geography and geology plays in the history of mankind and of the Earth. We are especially hard-pressed to accept catastrophic events, except in those times during which we have witnessed something horrific on our own.

[ASA Vet]

which decimated the population of the Mediterranean region, killing up to 90% of the population according to some estimates

10% or 90% is a rather large difference.

[Thud]

Check out Catastrophe: A Quest for the Origins of the Modern World by David Keys, about a titanic volcanic eruption in the Java-Sumatra area about 535 A.D. He has much to say on this subject.

[blam]

"What about the "Mini-Ice Age" which occured in the Late Middle Ages?"

I believe that was the Krakatoa(sp) volcano. Not sure though.

[P.O.E.]

This caught my eye towards the end:

Or, and here we take the Hoyle et al. suggestion, the bodies impacting in the Pacific region, including the northern China and Mongolian region, may have brought a fresh resupply of bacterial material, possibly characterized by mutations.

Is that saying that the extraterretrial bodies carried bacteria from outer space?