From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Mon May 21 2007 - 20:13:06 PDT
>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] "Space rock" a factor in ice age species destruction?
>Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 21:32:52 -0400
>
>BBC 5/21/07:
>
>"Ice Age blast 'ravaged America'"
>
>"A space rock may have exploded in the air over North America
>A controversial new idea suggests that a large space rock exploded over
>North America 13,000 years ago.
>
>The blast may have wiped out one of America's first Stone Age cultures as
>well as the continent's big mammals such as the mammoth and the mastodon.
>
>The blast, from a comet or asteroid, caused a major bout of climatic
>cooling
>which may also have affected human cultures emerging in Europe and Asia.
>
>Scientists will outline their evidence this week at a meeting in Mexico."
>
>Lots more:
>
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6676461.stm
>
>JMM / LMC
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