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Thanks blam and Freedom44. Here's a (literal) blast from the past, probably has a full thread somewhere on FR:

Space impact 'saved Christianity'
by Dr David Whitehouse
Monday, 23 June, 2003

It was just before a decisive battle for control of Rome and the empire that Constantine saw a blazing light cross the sky and attributed his subsequent victory to divine help from a Christian God. Constantine went on to consolidate his grip on power and ordered that persecution of Christians cease and their religion receive official status... Jens Ormo, a Swedish geologist, and colleagues working in Italy believe Constantine witnessed a meteoroid impact. The research team believes it has identified what remains of the impactor's crater. It is the small, circular Cratere del Sirente in central Italy. It is clearly an impact crater, Ormo says, because its shape fits and it is also surrounded by numerous smaller, secondary craters, gouged out by ejected debris, as expected from impact models. Radiocarbon dating puts the crater's formation at about the right time to have been witnessed by Constantine and there are magnetic anomalies detected around the secondary craters - possibly due to magnetic fragments from the meteorite.

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[blam]

" Here's a (literal) blast from the past, probably has a full thread somewhere on FR: "

Yup. It's been posted a couple times with pictures of the crater, etc.

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