[meteorite-list] Risk assessment of Tunguska class events

[E.P. Grondine]

Hi Rob - 

My book is available from me to meteorite list members at a low price.

It links Native American oral and written history, the geological record, and the archaeological record, and is as solid as a rock.

Could someone fire Ed Weiler now?

Ed

--- On Tue, 9/29/09, Rob McCafferty <rob_mccafferty at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Rob McCafferty <rob_mccafferty at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Risk assessment of Tunguska class events
> To: "E.P. Grondine" <epgrondine at yahoo.com>, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 4:30 PM
> I too, would love to read the
> document when it's ready.
> 
> I always think this sort of thing is like trying to work
> out the odds of you winning a raffle.
> You may have some sort of idea how many people are entering
> it but you're really just guessing.
> 
> Am I the only one who feels uneasy that some committee
> somewhere will shelve plans to tackle this on the grounds
> that "Ahhh! It'll probably be all right"
> 
> I read a book called "From Exodus to Arthur" (it's not
> brilliant, once it starts geting to conjecture to be honest
> and it reaches that point fairly early).
> One good thing about it is the fact that ancient myths,
> legends and writings have the remote possibility of being
> impact events if they are origined on anything other than
> utter fable.
> Even if just a one of the old legentd come from impact
> stories and comets, it raises questions over just how often
> Tunguska events may happen.
> 
> (the best bit of the book is the pretty thorough
> explanation of dendochronology and a paragraph that points
> out that all our climate change data for the last 100,000
> years comes from just 4 ice cores and there are gaps. Now
> there really is no reason for you to buy it).
> 
> Rob
> 
> --- On Tue, 9/29/09, E.P. Grondine <epgrondine at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: E.P. Grondine <epgrondine at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: [meteorite-list] Risk assessment of Tunguska
> class events
> > To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> > Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 9:55 PM
> > Hi - 
> > 
> > I am looking forward to reading the pdf soon. 
> > 
> > I tried to come to an estimate of Tunguska class
> events via
> > the historical and archaeological record - a small
> part of a
> > a book I wrote titled "Man and Impact in the
> Americas". 
> > 
> > E.P.
> > 
> > 
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