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Re: The day the sky fell............ by coldrum on Wednesday, 10 October 2007

This might be of interest. It's a crater field on the Island of Saaremaa, Estonia. The main crater is called Kaali and is about 110 m in diameter.
The age of the impact is thought to be around 1690–1510 B.C although various other dates are quoted here and there.
Archaeological evidence shows human activity by the crater around 700–200 B.C.
A few links here:

http://www.gi.ee/pdfid/10200.pdf

http://muinas.struktuur.ee/projektid/ecp/kaali/en/index.html

http://www.saaremaa.ee/eng/tourism/saaremaa/kaali.php

http://www.somerikko.net/old/geo/imp/kaalij_e.htm

My main hobby is astronomy and many years back now the astronomy society I belong to held a talk by Victor Clube on comet and asteroid inpacts on Earth in prehistoric and historic times.
Along with Bill Napier he has written a few books on the subject.
The Cosmic Serpent and Cosmic Winter are very good reads.
A bit about them here:

http://www.pibburns.com/catasbib/comets.htm#Clube82

Mike Baillie has also written a few books on the same subject. Exodus to Arthur is another well written and researched book.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Exodus-Arthur-Catastrophic-Encounters-Heritage/dp/0713486813/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/203-6839995-1793569?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192010660&sr=8-1

Although more evidence is accumulating that hazadous impacts from comets and asteroids have happened in the recent past governments hardly give any money into finding and diverting these objects. The technology is there but not the money. In this country the government is spending no money at all. Amateurs are doing the work off their own backs.
The SpaceGuard Centre is in Wales and is run by donations, the government gives nothing.
There website is here:

http://www.spaceguarduk.com/

Does'nt appear that we have learned from the past much.





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