[Red Badger]

And repeating this hoax makes it now plausible?

Of which "hoax" art thou speaking?........

[jonascord]

Apparently, there is a contingent of geologists that believe that the evidence of high temperatures, glass, stress fractures in the rock, and such, are the result of a landslide, and not a meteor impact.

It seems that, if there was no visible crater, or the remains of one, then there could not be a meteor. So, these two sets of scientists have been throwing rocks at each other for some time.

The new evidence on this tablet indicates that the meteor came in at a very flat angle, 6 degrees off of horizontal, clipped a peak, and shattered, causing a landslide as half the mountain sheared into the valley, and breaking the meteor into small enough bits to not leave a major crater.

[Ka-leo-lani]

Cf. Free Republic, Clay tablet holds clue to asteroid mystery, posted by bruinbirdman 03/31/2008.

If thou dost not recognize a hoax as foolish as this one, go reap moonbeames.