Ancient human settlement was obliterated by a COMET that exploded in Earth's atmosphere and sent fragments of molten glass 'hot enough to melt cars' flying to the ground 12,800 years ago

DailyMail ^ | 10 March 2020 | Ian Randall

[BenLurkin]

The event destroyed a village found in the Abu Hureyra dig site in Syria...

The impact is also believed to have contributed to the extinction of many large animals, including mammoths as well as North American horses and camels.

Experts believe the explosion helped bring about the demise of the North American Clovis culture and usher in an episode of climatic cooling.

The Abu Hureyra site is located on the edge of a vast region known as the Younger Dryas Boundary (YDB) strewnfield, which incorporates around 30 sites across Europe, the Americas and parts of the Middle East.

The strewnfield is characterised by signs of massive-scale burning — including a 'black mat' layer that is rich in carbon and platinum and and contains millions of tiny nanodiamonds and tiny metal spheres that must have formed in great heat.

Experts had long wondered if this layer of devastation may have been caused by a catastrophic impact event — a hypothesis supported by the discovery of a contemporaneous impact crater under the Hiawatha Glacier in Greenland.

In their study, Professor Kennett and colleagues analysed the glass found at Abu Hureyra to determine its composition, structure and likely formation temperature — concluding that it formed at temperatures in excess of 3,992°F (2,200°C).

Such intense heats could not be explained by contemporary human technology — or even lightning or a volcanic eruption.

This conclusion is supported by the presence in the meltglass of minerals rich in chromium, iron, nickel, sulphides, titanium and even platinum and iridium-rich iron.

The team found that the meltglass recovered from the Abu Hureyra site contained both material from the comet, but also vaporised soil, sediments and organic matter from the settlement that cooled nearly instantaneously to form glass.

[ought-six]

“I owned a ‘65 Comet Caliente...”

Me, too! I had it painted a reddish orange color with black bumpers. I sold it in 1970 when I went into the USAF.

[SunkenCiv]

The clovisimpact keyword, chrono sorted (I'm going to look for that older topics list I used to maintain).

• Scientists Find Possible Second Subglacial Impact Crater in Northwest Greenland [2019]
• Geoscientists Find Large Impact Crater in Greenland [2018]
• Massive crater under Greenland's ice points to climate-altering impact in the time of humans [2018]
• Ice core data supports ancient space impact idea (cosmic impact about 12,900 years ago?) [2013]
• Comet May Have Collided With Earth 13,000 Years Ago(MEXICO) [2012]
• Younger Dryas -The Rest of the Story! [2012]
• Humans Did Not Kill Off Mammoths; Comet, Climate Change Helped, Studies Show [2012]
• New evidence supporting extraterrestrial impact at the start of the Younger Dryas [2012]
• Fungi, Feces Show Comet Didn't Kill Ice Age Mammals? [2010]
• Humans to Blame for Extinction? - Not Necessarily So ... [2009]
• 12,900 Years Ago: North American Comet Impact Theory Disproved [2009]
• Did a Comet Hit Earth 12,000 Years Ago? [2009]
• Scientists find signs of 13,000-year-old extinction event [2009]
• Exploding Asteroid Theory Strengthened By New Evidence Located In Ohio, Indiana [2008]
• Greenland Ice Core Analysis Shows Drastic Climate Change Near End Of Last Ice Age [2008]
• Al Goodyear And The Secrets Of Ancient Americans [2008]
• Did Comets Cause Ancient American Extinctions? [2008]
• The Mystery Of Mammoth Tusks With Iron Fillings [2008]
• Great beasts peppered from space [2007]
• Evidence for an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago [2007]
• Cosmic blast may have killed off megafauna Scientists say early humans doomed, too [2007]
• Research Team Says Extraterrestrial Impact To Blame For Ice Age Extinctions (More) [2007]
• NSF Press Release: Comet May Have Exploded Over North America 13,000 Years Ago [2007]
• Comet Theory Collides With Clovis Research, May Explain Disappearance of Ancient People [2007]
• Climate alarmists lose another piece of evidence [2007]
• Ice Age Ends Smashingly: Did A Comet Blow Up Over Eastern Canada? (More) (Carolina Bays) [2007]
• Comet May Have Doomed Mammoths [2007]
• Oregon Researchers Involved In New Clovis-Age Impact Theory (More) [2007]
• Catastrophic Comet Chilled and Killed Ice Age Beasts (and Clovis people) [2007]
• Diamonds tell tale of comet that killed off the cavemen [2007]
• Did comet start deadly cold snap? [2007]
• Terrestrial Evidence of a Nuclear Catastrophe in Paleoindian Times [2006]
• Scientist: Comets Blasted Early Americans [2005]
• Supernova Storm Wiped Out Mammoths? [2005]
• Supernova Storm Wiped Out Mammoths? [2005]
• Supernova debris found on Earth [2004]
• Going Into The Water: A Survey Of Impact Events And The Coastal Peoples Of South-East North America [2002]

[George from New England]

What reporter idiot uses today’s terms to describe destruction ages ago.

‘melt cars’

maybe melt coconuts or entire forests

[spudville]

I had the comet cyclone GT! Not my favorite. But it was fun.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Fake news, 12K years ago” We are only here since 6K BC.

[a fool in paradise]

What kind of cars did they melt 12,800 years ago?

[b4its2late]

Wrong place at the wrong time strikes again!

[babble-on]

Ray: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath-of-God type stuff.

Venkman: Exactly.

Ray: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling.

Egon: Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes…
Winston: The dead rising from the grave.

Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together – mass hysteria.

[BenLurkin]

I still think it’s a shame Eddie Murphy punked out on his role in that flick.

[bwest]

“...sent fragments of molten glass ‘hot enough to melt cars’...”

So with a little digging we should be able to find the cars that were in garages.

[UnwashedPeasant]

"'hot enough to melt cars' flying to the ground"

It melted only the flying cars. The other cars were fine.

[Grimmy]

Is this about the same time period as the formation of the Carolina Bays?

[null and void]

Covered on this morning's S0 Report

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“It destroyed a village found in the Abu Hureyra dig site in Syria.”

Then it went on to make many large animals, including mammoths as well as North American horses and camels, go extinct.

Then it wiped out the North American Clovis culture.

Lastly it ushered in an episode of climatic cooling.

All from a couple of melted cars in a small Syrian village. Now that is thinking BIG.

[b4its2late]

Ahhh, I’ll have to watch. Haven’t watched it yet today.

[Grimmy]

Judging by that pic at that site of the people caught close enough to the blast to witness it...

Theyv’e still not managed to recover, technologically, in that area.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

[LibWhacker]

OMG, WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!

That's right, bozo. Could happen again. IF we don't get a handle on these near Earth objects.

[bitt]

p

[null and void]

I’ve got it cued to that part, you may want to go to the site to stat at the beginning.