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Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Researchers are contradicting one hypothesis that comet explosions may have ended the 9,000-year-old Clovis culture. The Clovis comet hypothesis was first reported in 2007, claiming a comet initiated the Younger Dryas cold period nearly 13,000 years ago. This period, also known as the Big Freeze, was a brief period of cold climatic conditions and drought, causing the collapse of the North American ice sheets. According to the...
An asteroid that struck Siberia and caused catastrophic damage in June 1908 wasn't as large as previously assumed, according to Sandia National Laboratories physicist Mark Boslough.APÂ reported that Boslough conducted supercomputer simulations and found that the asteroid that destroyed the forest at Tunguska had a blast force equivalent to one-quarter to one-third of the 10- to 20-megaton range scientists previously estimated.Boslough said he thinks that the in depth research of the...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The stunning amount of forest devastation at Tunguska a century ago in Siberia may have been caused by an asteroid only a fraction as large as previously published estimates, Sandia National Laboratories supercomputer simulations suggest."The asteroid that caused the extensive damage was much smaller than we had thought," says Sandia principal investigator Mark Boslough of the impact that occurred June 30, 1908. "That such a small object can do this kind of destruction...
