[meteorite-list] Re to Darren: Comet hit Britain in mid sixth, , century, AD?

[E.P. Grondine]

Hi all - 

I have just returned from visiting with Cherokee,
Shawnee, Tuscarora, and Seneca in eastern North
America
and I am just beginning to catch up with my e-mail.

I went through the surviving medieval European records
several years ago.  What I found was a strike by a
piece of Comet Encke at Bazas, France in 580 CE.  My
survey report is available in the Cambridge Conference
archives.

There appears to have also been an ocean impact which
appears to have washed away one division of the
Tuscarora which lived on the Outer Banks.

Whether this Encket fragment had a solid core which
might have survived as did the fragments of the strike
at Cheimgau is an intriguiging question. The first
step would be to contact the regional archaeologists
to try to determine the focus of the strike, and then
hiking, then out with the metal detectors.  Then call
in the experts and document, to establish bona-fides
and preserve market and science value.

Wish I had the time and money to hunt it - hell, I
don't even have a live passport right now. Oh well.

I may comment more on this as I read the rest of your
messages.

good hunting - bonne chaseur(?)
EP


--- Marco Langbroek <marco.langbroek at wanadoo.nl>
wrote:

> 
> Darren Garrison wrote:
> 
> > I'm not defending the "comet hit Britian" theory,
> but there CAN be a (fairly)
> > widely deadly hit without leaving (much) evidence
> that would be visible hundreds
> > of years later.  Look at Tunguska.  For how many
> miles radius would it have
> > killed (either instantly or over days or weeks
> from internal trauma) if it had
> > been over a populated area?  The British Isles are
> pretty small-- I'm guessing
> > that a Tunguska would wipe out a large percentage
> of the population. 
> 
> Hi Darren,
> 
> A Tunguska sized blast would not result in profound
> effects on tree growth some 
> distance away from the impact, which is what is
> claimed here.
> 
> But if a Tunguska were to occur over the British
> Isles, that would not be fun 
> indeed for part of its inhabitants. Still the
> affected area would be smaller 
> than the British Isles. The Tunguska devastation
> zone is roughly some 100-140 km 
> wide (63-88 miles).
> 
> - Marco
> 
> -----
> Dr Marco Langbroek
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> 
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