[meteorite-list] Exploding asteroid theory strengthened by new evidence located in Ohio, Indiana

[Mr EMan]

> (wondering myself where the last two replies went.)
> Darren said that a lack of crater made this news item
> suspect.
> 
> What I said was:
> The researcher did say this was an aerial burst and be it
> remembered that Tunguska didn’t leave a crater (else
> minor one) and it wasn’t exploding over what at the time
> was around 2miles/ 3kms of ice sheet.
> 
> I suspect the reporter is amiss for not providing
> specifics.  Perhaps they were too hyper or too stupored and
> in trying to soundbite a subject they probably knew little
> about co-mingled a lot terms.  
> 
> The researcher was discussing dust of micro-nano size
> collected in glacial sediments/out flow channels vic the
> terminal moraine(my words).  I don’t believe the
> researcher was implying that the kimberlite-derived
> diamonds , nor the gold and silver ores mined in Canada 
> are related to the dust.--only that the epicenter could
> have been over some mining districts.
> 
> This ties  well into the material that E.P. Grondine
> already posted about the decimation of mammoth and human
> populations at the 12000± year mark in northern North
> America.  I am a wee surprised that there was no mention of
> the spheroid containing black mats found in similar
> deposits.  This is building evidence that the Younger Dryas
> interval was triggered by a cometary encounter which caused
> a global cooling event lasting 1200 ± years.
> 
> Elton