[meteorite-list] Holocene Start Impact Event Controversy Continues

From: E.P. Grondine <epgrondine_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 18:00:24 -0800 (PST)
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Hi Paul -

Boslough's comment on the lack of evidence for a shower of comet fragment airbursts is getting a lot of media play. What he said is true: there is a lack of evidence for a continent wide shower of comet fragments.

What Boslough did not mention or is not being reported is several recent possible major astroblemes, such as Ilturalde Crater and the Lloydminster Structure. Nor that the layer of impactites has been independently confirmed by others.

While we've all been misquoted before, my current working hypothesis is that this whole thing is perhaps just a bit of pettiness on Boslough's part that Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory was chosen for the work on AIDA, the Asteroid Impact Deflection Analysis spacecraft, instead of his own Sandia Labs. After all, Boslough has been hanging out with Morrison, and if there's a pettier "scientist" I have yet to meet him or her.

"Denial" is a strange psychological mechanism, and undoubtedly we will hear stories about how an "asteroid impact did not kill the dinosaurs" for many years to come.

E.P. Grondine
Man and Impact in the Americas
Received on Fri 01 Feb 2013 09:00:24 PM PST