Cosmic Impact Site That Created Earth’s Axial Tilt and Fault Lines

Report and Opinion. 2010;2(2):1-2]. (ISSN: 1553-9873) ^ | Feb 2010 | Mihai Draghici

[aruanan]

So, the Scorpios should actually be Librans, or the Librans Scorpios. And such very different personality types. ;-)

Something like that. I can't remember which one comes before Scorpio. And since it's more than a single house, that screws up everyone of us special people who are born on the cusp.

[numberonepal]

Will do. Thanky kindly.

[ForGod'sSake]

Some terrific links you've dropped on this thread Civ! The possible change in our axis during historical times is a curiosity. Seems there is some evidence for disruptions in the view of the sky from bygone days noted in early glyphs and manuscripts -- like the constellations turning tail and heading the opposite direction. Other accounts in the Bible and elsewhere also indicate additional unusual behavior of the planet -- like it forgot to spin for a few days. Were these people hallucinating? Chewing peyote??? Early Man was obviously just a nincompoop who wasn't around when the memo on uniformitarianism came out.

FWIW, Drake's Passage has always looked to me like slippage of the Antarctic and South American plates westward past a "hard" or stationary spot in the ocean crust; or vice versa; or a combination of both. Same with the Caribbean which has a similar appearance. Like northern S.A. might have been "twisted" to the southeast away from N.A. I'm sure absence of a continental shelf at the eastern tip of S.A. might tell us something; I just don't know what it might be. N.A., for whatever reasons, appears to have retained most or all of its southern and eastern continental shelf.

Anywho, I'm all but convinced our planet went through some significant trauma during historical times and the few that lived to tell about it have been written off as nut cases or cranks by the scientific community™. Odd thing, most of the myths/legends/lore tell the same or similar tale.

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure.

Here’s the PDF file the author has online (was there yesterday):

http://www.sciencepub.net/report/report0202/01_1282_Impact_pub_report0202_1_2.pdf

The Eltanin impact (somewhat more than 2 million years ago, and not nearly long enough ago for his scenario) evidence was found during the Int’l Geophysical Year (which actually started in the 1950s and continued into the 1960s, iow, it lasted much longer than a year) by (no surprise here) the research vessel Eltanin. Some research has been done subsequent to that, including the finding of a layer of iridium from the impact.

Another FR topic which will probably be of interest:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1390424/posts

[SunkenCiv]

I agree, but I’ve turned over a new leaf and don’t post the link to that book at the drop of every hat. Uh-oh... I feel an uncontrollable urge coming on... [’Civ quickly clicks the close box on the tab]

[catfish1957]

The axial tilt was not caused by an impact. An impact could cause a wobble, but not a constant 23 degree tilt.

In a related thread, Michael Moore checks into a Fat Camp.....

[RossMelb]

re mdraghici article in 2010 that cosmic impact caused Earth axis tilt and wobble...check out new evidence in BEFORE THE DELUSION by Wm Gleeson, recently published in UK.
Similar proposition as mdraghici but with a lot more and different ‘evidence’. an interesting and entertauning read. RossMelb

[Mr. K]

the tilt gives us our seasons

the wobble is very slow- like on the order of 11,000 years or something

Right now the north star is exactly north because of the wobble- but there are times when it is not

[Mr. K]

the tilt gives us our seasons

the wobble is very slow- like on the order of 11,000 years or something

Right now the north star is exactly north because of the wobble- but there are times when it is not

[Mr. K]

the tilt gives us our seasons

the wobble is very slow- like on the order of 11,000 years or something

Right now the north star is exactly north because of the wobble- but there are times when it is not