rned to normal. These odd,
> potentially
> "super-cooling," events are NOT associated with
> extinctions
> nor any other known phenomenon (vulcanism, magnetic
> reversals, etc.). They are completely out of the
> blue
> (and fortunately quite rare) and very difficult to
ossibility, but interstellar drifts of supernova dust can
be almost as bad, not only unspectacular but hardly
noticeable... until it's too late.
Since I've disagreed with you (and extensively), I'll
apologize in advance for annoying you again, Marco.
Isn't strange ho
If you're talking about catastrophic events during the Dark Ages, wasn't
there an episode where major outgassing from volcanoes (fluorine and other
nasty volcanic gases) in Iceland poisoned most of the viable cropland there,
and the effects were felt up to several hundred miles away? I vaguely
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:54:04 +0200, you wrote:
>Large impact phenomena come with a suit of identifiable things. If there was
>such an event in Britain as recent as AD 540, then where are the ejecta
>layers,
>the dust layers, the spherule layers, the impact glasses, the shocked quartz,
>the imp
Sterling K. Webb wrote:
The scientist you're referring to is Michael Baillie,
an Irish dentrochronologist (not Bailey).
Too many Bailey'/Baillie's around, sorry... And its dendrochronologist, not
dentrochronologist.
Their suggestion arose from uncovering a 19th century
account of an
en impossible
to explain. I got no theory, except that I tend look up at the
sky for big nasty unexplained events.
After-thought: Ever hear of the form of ice called
"diamond dust?" Google that, too. Now, there's a really
nasty possibility...
Sterling K. Webb
> And not be recorded historically except in the most obscure and oblique
> fashion? And not leave any apparent geological or botanical effects? I'd
say
> the parameters you are looking for would be supernatural.
I think it pretty obvious that if something this size had landed on Ireland
in 530 AD
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Re:Comet hit Britain in mid sixth century, AD?
Thanks Marco,
In general, I think the theory is very dubious. The guy was trying to
expl
> Baileys comet impact hypothesis is quite contested, it certainly is not an
> accepted main stream hypothesis. So I was quite surprised by the tone of
that
> newspaper clipping that suggested so. The astrophysicist supporting it
are, by
> the way, astrophysicists with a known fetish for impacts as
> 538(ad): Here 14 days before 1 March the sun grew dark from early morning
> until 9am.
> (Winchester Mss, Cambridge, Corpus Christie MS173, ff 1(v)32(r))
>
> 540: Here on 20 June the sun grew dark and stars appeared for well-nigh half
> a hour after 9am
> (Winchester Mss, Cambridge, Corpus Chri
Hi,
.Just as follow-up to Paul's email re the 6th C. possible meteorite, can I
just give you a couple of quotes from The Anglo-Saxon chronicles, which were
contemporary notes compiled over a period starting about 800ad to 1100ad by
the monastic population here in the UK.
First thing that becomes a
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