“...the Younger Days Impact Hypothesis is a highly controversial idea, given the lack of evidence.”
take away
1. Hypothesis
2. highly controversial idea
3. lack of evidence
Okay, “What If” is a fun game, but let’s not take it too seriesly.
Orpheus, the imaginary planet/asteroid. It doesn’t exist. It never existed. The moon was not formed because of a collision. It’s all SPECULATION and “What If”.
http://www.alphatucana.co.uk/orpheus-collision-snowball-earth/
Well, I don;t know if I agree with the lack of evidence. I think Firestone and friends have listed some rather clear evidence. Sunken Civ: please list “The Book” if you have not already done so. Also regarding “the lack of a crater. For one thing there appears to be 2 or 3 craters forming the bottom of Lake Michigan. Linear craters is not surprising after seeing the recent series of strikes on Jupiter. And strikes separated by larger spaces or continents would not be surprising if hits were separated by minutes or hours. Also there might be some craters in the ocean or scraped away by glaciers. The 34mya hit of the Chesapeake Bay area and Popogai (sp?) in Russia probably left craters about 60 miles wide. On the other hand there is also a 9 mile crater off Atlantic City that appears to have occurred around the same time. A crater that has recently been found in the Iraq Marshes either 1 or 2 miles wide (I forget which) occurred aroung 4 thousand years ago and may have been responsible for a lot of social disturbance in the middle east—rise and fall of various civilizations, the First Intermediate Period in Egypt. I don’t think anyone yet has come out with a good book on the implications of such a large crater at that time period.