[blam]

"According to the page, 0.052 x 10^6 Ma, otherwise known as about 52,000 years ago."

Thanks. That's about the time of the Barringer crater in Arizona. I wonder if we recieved a swarm at that time.

[cogitator]

Thanks. That's about the time of the Barringer crater in Arizona. I wonder if we recieved a swarm at that time.

Or just statistical variability. But I'm not belittling the idea -- it seems to me that there are a number of craters (Manicougan in Quebec being one) that are dated to a very similar time period. Searching...

Crater Chain On Two Continents Points To Impact From Fragmented Comet

This is believed to have contributed to the end-of-the-Triassic extinction event. This is not certain, however (it's not certain that the five impacts cited in the article all happened at the same time, but they were "geologically" close).

[SunkenCiv]

We think alike. :')