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| 10-4-2002
Posted on 10/05/2002 12:02:00 PM PDT by blam
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity; Rye
There are a couple of possible ancient meteor craters in eastern Canada. The southeast corner of Hudson Bay has a remarkably circular shape that would indicate a possible impact site, with the Belcher Islands as the "cone" of the crater.
Also, the Manicouagan Reservoir is a peculiar circular body of water surrounding a large land mass that was formed behind the Daniel Johnson Dam in northeastern Quebec.
To: Alberta's Child
Interesting; I hadn't heard of those.
Have you ever been to Meteor Crater in Arizona? An unbelievably impressive sight/site.
To: Rye
Manicouagan is particularly impressive, since the reservoir clearly defines the circular shape of the crater. The ancient crater is 65 miles or so from rim to rim, and the reservoir inside it is 45-50 miles across.
I've never been to Meteor Crater in Arizona, but from pictures I've seen I would guess it is much smaller than this.
To: Alberta's Child
Meteor Crater is much smaller, of course. But it's also much more clearly indentfied as a crater. Manicouagan, if it was in fact formed by a meteor, is both far older and far larger.
Thanks for the very interesting photo. It almost looks like a giant caldera. I'll do a Google search to find out more.
To: templar
I would think that the equivalent of 30 nukes a year going off in the atmosphere would be rather more noticeable than it is, wouldn't it? I've seen one... Over PA a few years ago.
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10/08/2002 11:00:27 AM PDT
by
lepton
To: lepton
At least 30 times a year, asteroids smash into the Earth's atmosphere and explode with the force of a nuclear bomb."
I know one hit in the Mediterranean sea a few months ago and in Greenland in 1997 but 30 times a year? I know at least 30 get absorbed into our atmosphere but to explode like a nuclear bomb?.
You seen one blow up over PA?
To: Steve Van Doorn
It was an amazing sight, but yes, one October about 4 or 5 years ago, I was driving on I-76 or I-81 (Near Carlisle), and saw one head west and then blow up. It was visible over the car headlights and the streetlamps.
We're talking high altitude bursts here, not ground-strikes, like in Greenland.
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posted on
10/09/2002 11:13:13 AM PDT
by
lepton
To: blam
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I actually believe the angel Gabriel was the asteroid"
Thanks for the post. I'm sort of new to all of this. What is your opinion of Velikovsky? Also did you see the show about Venus on the Science channel last night. Very interesting stuff.
To: bonesmccoy
Doesn't an asteroid become a meteor when it hits the atmosphere and then a meteorite when it strikes earth?
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10/09/2002 11:34:04 AM PDT
by
TheLion
To: the-ironically-named-proverbs2
"What is your opinion of Velikovsky? " He got a lot of thing correct, however, his biggest problem was that he tried to explain everything.
No I didn't see the program on Venus.
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posted on
10/09/2002 12:41:20 PM PDT
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blam
To: blam
Well, first off the show about Venus was narrated by William Shatner. I saw him on Hannity and Colmes a couple of weeks ago and was very surprised at how much of an enviro-nut he was. A good part of the show was spent talking about how Venus was a good example of what the Earth could become if we didn't cut back on the greenhouse gases. They did say that they really didn't know, but that was the slant. What I found interesting was the actual scientific information in the show- especially after reading
Worlds in Collision. A couple of the facts that were interesting were:
Venus' atmosphere circles the planet at a much faster rate than Venus' rotation. (I forget the exact figures, and don't have time to look them up, but it was something like 5 days for the atmoshere to rotate once versus a couple hundred days for Venus to make one revolution)
Venus rotates backwards relative to the rest of the solar system.
The most interesting tidbit was the information about the surface of the planet. They said that the planet was evenly covered with around only 1,000 craters. They made the point that this was very unusual because it implied that the surface was much "younger" than they expected to find. They pretty much stated as fact that the planet was over 4 billion years old and this meant that the surface had been molten and then solidified in the recent past (the number that was thrown around was 1/2 billion years ago). I'm sure Velikovski would have had a field day with this information. I'm sure he would have taken issue with their conclusions as far as the age of the surface- and the "planet" itself. The scientists reeled off a list of puzzling facts about the planet, but never once mentioned Velikovski or that these puzzling facts just support his theories even more.
To: the-ironically-named-proverbs2
Thanks. I've seen all this data and speculations from other sources over the years.
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10/09/2002 5:07:35 PM PDT
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blam
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To: Steve Van Doorn
I believe that about the time of the first Gulf War, there was a high altitude burst that set warning bells off in a number of
advanced nations, until it was identified as a meteor/asteroid induced explosion.
To: blam
Test for radiatation. Could be a nuclear test.
To: Calvin Locke
Several years back I watched one of the large meteor showers(can't remember which one) out in the countryside. There were several meteors that went from one horizon all the way to the other horizon. This was in a flat part of Texas. There were several that actually came straight at us and exploded in a white flash like the concussion fireworks. At arms-length, the explosion was as big as the distance between your thumb and index fingers. Seemed like they made a boom, like a sonic boom, but they didn't happen very often.
I saw a meteor hit the ground a few years back, too. Very cool. It was dawn, I was driving on the interstate, and it passed though a layer of clouds right in front of me. It lit up the clouds green and then flashed purple and red and several other colors real fast, and then came out the bottom side and passed behind the horizon. It flashed when it hit on the far side. Turned out later that several other people I know saw it and it had fallen about 5 miles from me. As far as I know, no one ever found the meteorite, although there really wouldn't be anyone around there that would go look.(REAL small town America.)
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04/03/2006 6:40:13 AM PDT
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DavemeisterP
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