[meteorite-list] Meteorite Impact article

[Jerry]

"But it can't happen again"
train wreck
Jerry Flaherty
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>
> A friend here in Oro Valley just sent this to me, thought I would share 
> for what it might be worth.  See link for complete article and cartoon.
>
> Twink Monrad
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>
> Southwest Archaeology Today for Jan. 8, 2008
>
> Southwestern Archaeology Making the News - A Service of the Center For 
> Desert
> Archaeology
>
> - The Possibility that Meteorite Impacts may have Affected Northern 
> Paleolithic
> Populations is the Topic of Lecture Series in Santa Fe: Truly 
> revolutionary
> ideas are not very common these days, but one is peeking up above the 
> horizon of
> North American prehistory. Dr. Richard Firestone, an isotope physicist 
> from the
> Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, has uncovered evidence for cosmic collisions 
> at
> times that would have influenced humans and their environment. Impacts at 
> 39,000
> and 12,900 years ago devastated portions of the northern hemisphere, 
> treating
> the ice-age megafauna to smaller versions of the type of shock that 
> contributed
> to the extinction of the dinosaurs. The 12,900 BP impact may have changed 
> the
> course of the cultural as well as natural history of North America, and 
> the
> possibility is challenging accepted views of Paleoindian archaeology.
>
>
> <http://www.cdarc.org/sat/sky_is_falling.pdf>http://www.cdarc.org/sat/sky_is_falling.pdf
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