From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Wed Dec 12 2007 - 06:44:13 PST
>From: "John M. McMahon" <mcmahon_at_LEMOYNE.EDU>
>Reply-To: History of Astronomy Discussion Group <HASTRO-L_at_listserv.wvu.edu>
>To: HASTRO-L_at_listserv.wvu.edu
>Subject: [HASTRO-L] Meteorite impacts and Ice Age fauna
>Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:34:51 -0500
>
>BBC 12/11/07:
>
>"Great beasts peppered from space"
>
>"Startling evidence has been found which shows mammoth and other great
>beasts from the last ice age were blasted with material that came from
>space.
>
>Eight tusks dating to some 35,000 years ago all show signs of having being
>peppered with meteorite fragments."
>
>[snip]
>
>"The intriguing question is how space impacts might fit into the extinction
>story of the ice age beasts. The mammoth, their elephant cousins the
>mastodon, sabre-toothed tigers, some bears, and many other creatures all
>disappeared rapidly from the palaeo-record about 10,000 years ago.
>
>Their loss has traditionally been put down to either climate change and/or
>the efficient hunting technologies adopted by migrating humans.
>
>Could impacts have also weakened these populations?"
>
>Lots more:
>
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7130014.stm
>
>JMM / LMC
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