Posted on 08/12/2007 2:00:11 PM PDT by Renfield
I wonder who these people may have been...30,000 years ago in Bolivia?
I would want to see some solid evidence that the blast and the village were contemporaneous. They are probably separated somewhat in time, like by about 29,000 years or so!
Pawnbroker?
The Scientific Exploration Society was in Bolivia to investigate a shallow crater about five miles in width. According to Colonel Blashford-Snell, he has now found evidence that this was caused by a giant meteorite, which struck the Bolivian Amazon Basin up to 30,000 years ago. He says he has found evidence of human habitation within 50 miles of the blast zone, and believes these people were wiped out as a result of the meteor's impact.Hey, I'd not read that far.
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Doberman.
just be glad it didn’t have three heads.
http://www.amosink.com/Publication/Cerberus.jpg
Yup. I agree. Regardless, I jumped on it anyway, lol.
Thats out of the ordinary but Ive seen and heard of that before. What I wasnt ready for was a family I recently met that doesnt grow the toe next to the pinky. Their feet looked like they were evolving to wear nothing but roach kickers...
Satellite images have revealed a circular feature in the Bolivian Amazon basin, 400kms NE of La Paz. This 8 km diameter structure appears likely to be an impact crater caused by a meteorite, either an asteroid, or a comet, colliding with the Earth between 5000 and 30,000 years ago. If so, it is possibly one of the Earth’s most recent major impact events and could have been caused by a meteorite the size of a bus. In which case the resultant ‘explosion’ (equivalent to many megatons of dynamite) could have affected much of the Amazon Basin.
The effects of such impacts are important in biological and geological history of our planet and consequently this unusual structure is of considerable scientific interest. If found to be one of the Earth’s youngest impact craters, it’s creation could be indicated in folklore of indigenous South American people.
The impact of a meteorite in this swampy area would probably have thrown up a massive quantity of waterlogged material which could then have fallen back into the crater. This might explain why the average depth is only one metre and it is the dramatic change in vegetation that has made the structure visible from space.
There are many questions to be answered and several expeditions have attempted to do this. However the challenging terrain and adverse climatic conditions have made it extremely difficult to achieve conclusive results.
Sergeotechmin have also considered what else might have caused the crater and one possibility is that it is a volcanic pipe. If so this is of considerable geological interest.
http://www.ses-explore.org/Page3.aspx?PageID=70
and yes, the dog gets a mention, too...
Excellent addition, thanks.
Each nose has one nostril, so it looks more like one split nose than two noses to me.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- A meteorite slammed into a sparsely populated area of Honduras last month, terrifying residents and leaving a 165-foot-wide crater, scientists confirmed Sunday. Villagers reported seeing a fireball crash and break into small red and yellow pieces on November 22 [1996] near San Luis, in the western province of Santa Barbara. But Sunday's statement was the first official word that the object was a meteorite. Residents of San Luis, 125 miles west of the capital, were terrified by the meteorite's crash, which sparked a fire that destroyed several acres of coffee plants and damaged a main highway. "I arrived almost immediately to the site of the explosion," said peasant Francisco Aguilar Sabillon. "There were enormous flames, and everything was destroyed. Because of that I fled from the place, frightened." Authorities have asked those living nearby to stay away from the crash site. The meteorite did not appear to have any properties that would pose a threat to humans, they said.Here's an online facsimile of a paper rejected for publication in 1968. Have times changed? Or is it like Thoreau (or somebody) said -- "Times don't change. We change." ;') I didn't check to see if the URL is still alive:A Meteor Impact Or Earth Slump?About 10:10 PM [November 22, 1996], the residents of this area [the Honduras-Guatemala border] observed a red-and yellow fireball moving east-to-west. The bolide's passing was marked by a loud detonation. From this information, one would bet heavily that this was simply a routine meteor detonation caused by the heat generated during entry into the atmosphere... So far, investigators have not been able to decide whether the landslide is just gravity-slumping on the slope or a disturbance created by the night's meteor.
William Corliss
Possible Formation of the Guatemala Basin by the Impact of an Extraterrestrial BodyThe earth must be as frequently cratered per unit area as the moon. By a relative cross section argument, more than 13 times the number of craters the size of the maria on the moon exist, or existed, on the earth. Whether such events occur with sufficient frequency in recent geologic time to provide tangible evidence today of such cratering is uncertain. From the arguments set forth, and the continuing discovery of meteorite craters on the continents (Short, 1966, Baldwin, 1963, Dietz, 1961, and Prouty, 1952) it seems likely that the importance of the effect of extraterrestrial bodies impacting the earth has been, at least, underestimated (the Alverez's hypothesis concerning the end of the dinosaurs by such a mechanism was more than a decade in the future). Certainly there is as much evidence at present to support our hypothesis for the formation of the Guatemala Basin as other hypotheses advanced to explain the low heat flow found in this basin.
by Charles E. Corry and Miller L. Bell
With the tests for shock processes advanced by Short (1966), our hypothesis should be capable of field verification or rejection.
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