[meteorite-list] Holocene start impacts

From: E.P. Grondine <epgrondine_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:41:18 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <448060.20540.qm_at_web36902.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi Dirk -

You can believe whatever you want to believe, But:

The Congress of the United States, that is to say
the Representatives and Senators, both Democrat and
Republican, issued very clear instructions to the
NASA Administrator to deal with the impact hazard.

The current Administrator chose to ignore their
instructions, trying to pass the problem off to the
NSF, among others. It is unlikely that the NSF will
reduce its funding for impact studies; in fact, it will
likely work with the USGS in promoting them.

NASA Administrator Griffin will be leaving in a few days,
and those who advised him to ignore those instructions will
likely follow along shortly thereafter: I could express my
guess as to who they were, but the NASA archives will be
open to the next Administrator, so he or she will not have to
guess.

The geologists' data agrees with the archaeological data,
and in fact forms a part of it, and both agree with
the traditions, such as they are and as they were
preserved. I did as best I could to keep them, and
pass them on.

There will be some more undeniable geological data
coming along shortly as well, this concerning later
impact mega-tsunamis that affected North America.

E.P. Grondine
Man and Impact in the Americas

--- On Tue, 11/18/08, drtanuki <drtanuki at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: drtanuki <drtanuki at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] AD: Holocene start impacts
> To: epgrondine at yahoo.com, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 9:27 AM
> Greetings-
> It is amazing the the NSF is funding such bogus research
> as YDB. Tree sap diamonds...that is about as good as
> tecate diamonds from mezcal Hecho en Mexico. I think that
> the patentability will be called into question since
> the Mexican inventon group went public with their
> disclosure, thus the tree sap patent application will
> get zapped with Prior Art and Lack of Invention objections
> at the USPTO or at least they should IF the Examiner is
> doing his job. YDB will soon be a dead topic with the
> upcoming Federal budget cuts. Thank God.
>
> Dirk Ross...Tokyo
>
> Ed time for a BBQ; pull out those mammoths again, ok?
>
> --- On Wed, 11/19/08, E.P. Grondine
> <epgrondine at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> From: E.P. Grondine <epgrondine at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] AD: Holocene start impacts
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 12:01 AM
>
> Hi all -
>
> Forwarded from the Cambridge Conference
>
> 13) YDB/CLOVIS COMET AT AGU
>
> Dear Benny:
>
> I am writing to share the news about the discovery of
> billions of diamonds per
> cm3 associated with the proposed Younger Dryas impact
> event, or "Clovis
> Comet," as it is sometimes called. Data on the
> discovery will be presented
> on December 15-16 at the American Geophysical Union's
> annual Fall Meeting in
> San Francisco. On December 16, there will be 4 talks
> (http://www.agu.org/cgi-bin/sessions5?meeting=fm08?=PP23D&maxhits=400),
> and the day before, on December 15, there will be 8 poster
> presentations
> (http://www.agu.org/cgi-bin/sessions5?meeting=fm08?=PP13C&maxhits=400
> -
> Scroll down to PP13C-1469 through 1477). As you and your
> readers may remember,
> data on about a dozen other lines of impact evidence were
> presented to AGU at
> the Acapulco Joint Assembly in 2007. Since then, the
> hypothesis has created
> considerable controversy.
>
> The lead presentation will reveal the discovery of all
> three diamond allotropes
> (cubic diamond, lonsdaleite, and n-diamond) in the YDB
> impact layer, dating to
> the Younger Dryas onset at 12.9 ka (as well as the new
> discovery of lonsdaleite
> and n-diamonds in the KT boundary). The YDB diamonds are
> distributed broadly
> across N America and NW Europe at 15 sites spanning 9,000
> km or 23 percent of
> Earth's circumference. N-diamonds and lonsdaleite, or
> hexagonal diamond, do
> not co-occur with terrestrial diamonds, but are found in
> meteorites. Lonsdaleite
> is found on Earth only in association with known ET
> impacts, and thus, is a
> definitive impact indicator. No diamonds have ever been
> detected in sediments
> above or below the YD impact layer.
>
> Some critics have suggested that all the inferred impact
> material is nothing
> more than typical meteoritic ablation products and that the
> indicators rained
> down from the heavens non-catastrophically over time. This
> hypothesis is refuted
> by the presence of millions of diamonds inside single
> carbon spherules that
> formed rapidly from charred tree sap. Our research, which
> has resulted in a
> patent application for a new process to create diamonds,
> indicates that they
> could have only formed during the extraordinarily high
> temperatures and
> pressures that existed during an impact. The "cosmic
> rain" was heavy
> and far from gentle.
>
> I have also placed a PDF of them on my website here:
> http://www.georgehoward.net/finalAGUabstracts.pdf
>
> Kind regards.
>
> George A. Howard | Partner
> Restoration Systems, LLC
> 1101 Haynes Street, Suite 211
> Raleigh N.C. 27604
> www.restorationsystems.com
> www.georgehoward.net
>
> I think that pretty well explains those mammoth bodies
> piled up along the river
> in Alaska that Hibben saw. And gives the reason for some of
> the peoples'
> "strange " tales.
>
> Of course, you can read a few of the peoples accounts of
> this in my book,
> personally signed copies of which are available from me for
> $20 plus $5 priority
> mail shipping US, or plus $15 for shipping overseas. The
> book is in English.
>
> Now if there were only some larger carbonaceous chondrites
> to sell, or some
> nice shatter cones, or some impact glasses bigger than
> spherules.
>
> E.P. Grondine
> Man and Impact in the Americas
>
>
>
>
>
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