Comet May Have Collided With Earth 13,000 Years Ago(MEXICO)

Spacedotcom ^ | March 6, 2012 | Clara Moskowitz

[ForGod'sSake]

I bet that’s how we got red hot chili peppers. Aiee! Carramba!

Not to mention outgassing, mucho outgassing.

[null and void]

If I didn’t know better I’d say you’re trying to hijack a perfectly good science thread.

Odd. I was thinking the exact same thing about you.

Shall we call a truce pending a better venue?

[cripplecreek]

If you want to hijack an incoherent thread, do it right.

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[ForGod'sSake]

Shall we call a truce pending a better venue?

Suits me.

[null and void]

Excellent, my sense of you is that we could have a good conversation and hopefully learn from each other. Looking forward to it.

[Lancey Howard]

[cripplecreek]

Aww crap and a camper.

[ForGod'sSake]

Lemme guess, you call out this guy when your toilet shocks you? As a matter of curiousity, does he have to have two licenses; in addition to his drivers license of course???

[ForGod'sSake]

You’ll find I’m frequently wrong but never in doubt. ;^)

[null and void]

Perfect. I’m frequently right but always in doubt. ;^(

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ForGod'sSake and BenLurkin!

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[ProtectOurFreedom]

Shocking! They found Biden's Brain...

[BenLurkin]

I wonder if disasters like the Tunguska Event are more frequent that we realized. Absence of craters from these kinds of impacts might disguise how often they happen.

[ForGod'sSake]

Have you seen other articles about impacts contemporaneous with the one believed to have hit northern North America ~12,900 years ago. I've seen other posts/articles discussing black mat layers etc in other parts of the northern hemisphere and assumed it was the result of the one that hit northern NA, but nothing this far south.

[SunkenCiv]

I hadn’t seen anything about something that far south, either (that I recall) but having multiple parts of the same object arrive at slightly different times appears to be more common than the reverse. We should all wait to see about the dating of this new find — perhaps it happened earlier or later, like perhaps it’s dated the same as Berringer crater(still no solid, agreed-upon date for that impact).

[Clay Moore]

There is no reason to think that the Earth had not taken as many hits proportionally as what we can see on the Moon. Yes our atmosphere is going to break up the asteroids more but it should be about the same.

[bigheadfred]

Shall we call a truce pending a better venue?

Now that makes an impact. And how odd. It ended an ice age...

[SunkenCiv]

For a long while it was taught that all of Earth's impact craters formed during the Late Heavy Bombardment, and that all trace of them had been eroded away, because Earth is unique etc. Turns out people just weren't looking for them, now nearly 200 have been identified and studied.

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