[meteorite-list] Holocene start impacts on the History Channel, and AD

From: E.P. Grondine <epgrondine_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 15:46:00 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <924335.25517.qm_at_web36902.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi - from Leroy Ellenberger -

"Last nite, History Channel premiered subject program about impacts on Earth from meteors, asteroids, comets and space debris:

<http://www.history.com/shows.do?action=detail&episodeId=481956>

The program will be re-broadcast Sunday, Sept. 6 at 7 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Sept. 15 at 8 p.m. EDT and Wed. Sept. 16 at midnight EDT. Check your local schedule.

The program featured Steve Chesley, the NASA astronomer who recently successfully predicted, for the first time, the point of impact in North Africa of a meteor less than a day after it was discovered. A search team dispatched to the predicted Ground Zero recovered ca. 11 pounds of meteor fragments.

Brown Univ. impact expert Peter Schultz was featured in segments on his investigation of the 2007 impact of a small asteroid in Peru and the simulation of an impact using NASA's vertical gun to fire a pea-sized sphere into a thick Plexiglass(?) plate. Very impressive slow motion video from various angles.

A surprising subject was the work of Ohio archaeologist Ken Tankersley (Kent State Univ.) at Sheriden Cave in Ohio where he and his team have been excavating remains of Pleistocene mega-fauna and Clovis artifacts from the horizon at 12,900 B.P. The FACT of the Younger-Dryas impact at this time was practically implicit in the program. Tankersley's work was mentioned by Ed Grondine in the August 22nd edition of CCNet, BTW. See: <http://www.ourstrangeworld.net/index.php/main/article/extraterrestrial_event_affected_human_history/> for more on Tankersley's excavation at Sheriden Cave."

Signed copies of "Man and Impact in the Americas" are available to meteorite list participants for 20$ plus $5 postage ($25) of plus $15 overseas ($35). Contact me off list to place your order. The bitch is sure to become a classic and highly collectable after it's finished killing me.

E.P.



      
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