04-May-2008, 07:32 PM
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A while ago I ran across this article on a meteor impact in the Indian Ocean (May 2807 BC) . When I looked at Solanki’s historical sunspot record I was surprised to see it possibility showed up in the record. The estimated sunspots at this date take a big dip. I thought at the time if the 2 were connected it must be because of the tremendous amount of water vapor ejected into the atmosphere and thus blocking out or reflecting the sun. I just filed it under “curious things.”
Then I ran across the theory that the Younger Dryas cooling was caused by a comet exploding over Canada.
So I went looking for more meteor/ comet impacts in the last 15,000 years. The major one that I found was in the Sargasso Sea 31N 65W and dated at 12,000 BP. This lines up with a huge dip in the sunspot record.
Another was in Argentina 34S 69W dated 10,000 BC and left an impact crater 600 meters across. This lines up with the 8.2 kiloyear event. However this does not hit an ocean. It could have split in 2 and part of it hit the ocean?
Now I am the first to admit that this is very scanty evidence to suggest that all of the wholes in the sunspot record are caused by meteors and comets impacting the earth, however, if they hit the ocean, then they are not going to leave much of a trace.
I have also been reading about Dansgaard-Oeschger events. Stefan Rahmstorf published a paper”Timing of abrupt climate change: A precise clock” In this paper he says the DO events occur every 1,470 years. This type of regularity suggests something extraterrestrial in nature. Could it be something as simple as an asteroid field?
The black diamonds show the timing of Bond cooling events.
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