[meteorite-list] The National Geographic Special on the Holocene Start Impacts

From: E.P. Grondine <epgrondine_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:34:16 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <690468.7739.qm_at_web36911.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi all -

I need to interrupt the condolences and memorials for
Jim Kreigh for this note.

I don't know how many of you saw the National
Geographic Special on the Holocene Start Impacts, but
the end of the mega-fauna is no longer a mystery: they
died as a result of climate collapse following impact
ca 10,900 BCE. So did about 95% of the people living
in North America. My congratulations to all who
purchased copies of my book, Man and Impact in the
Americas, in which a few of the First People's
memories of those events were given. I think that most
of you realize now exactly how good of a bargain your
purchases and/or trades were. The specimens I
received from some of you are now used by me for
educational purposes.

What I need to bring up here is the evidence for an
iron or stony iron impact ca. 35,000 BCE which was
presented in the program. The team had found some
tusks with metal embedded, which were radiocarbon
dated 35,000 BCE, rather than 10,900 BCE they hoped
for. They realized this had to be a separate impact
from the 10,900 BCE event.

I don't know exactly where those tusks came from, but
it is possible that other fragments of this iron or
stony iron may have survived those 37,000 years. Or
maybe all that's left is fossil meteorites. Or perhaps
that impactor air blasted into very small fragments.

The hunt is on. Good luck and

good hunting,
E.P. Grondine
Man and Impact in the Americas













       
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Received on Sat 13 Oct 2007 02:34:16 PM PDT