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Cosmography101 Class 11.2/3 - Recorded on October 31, 2007 by Bradley Young
"Meteor Showers and Festivals of the Dead" (Extensive notes below) Join us on a Tour!
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Notes:
Evolving NEO census / Apollo “Earth crossers” became PHAs: Potentially hazardous Asteroids
Tunguska Maps indicate location – within Siberian Traps and south of Tundra, so tree fall apparent
Diagrams of blast zone shape and extent; Europe/Asia map shows sites reporting all night lights
Skip thru Accounts/Testimonials from 1908 Blast: Diary of Leonid Kulik
Local Site Images: beneath explosion epicenter were shallow elliptical depressions – oval bogs
Cauldron, crater swamps, and South Swamp at Ground Zero; Secondary break-up blasts?
Butterfly or wing shaped likely due to split into two objects just before exploding
Blast Zone Comparison for Scale – covers the area inside and beyond Atlanta’s perimeter highway
Potential for all buildings to be knocked down and millions (?) of people to be killed
(RC jumps thru slides due to time constraints – viewer can pause to read) RE:
Review of news article clippings of Close Encounters and Asteroid Fly-by Headlines
Why are governments not devising a strategy? Will it take another wake-up call from the Cosmos?
12kya Event – human population plummeted precipitously. How many previous totally disappeared?
Younger Dryas Extinction: 130 species of mega-mammals went extinct 12kya, but not humans!
Friday July 13th of 2029 -- 2004MN4 “Apophis” passing at half an Earth radius, miss by 5 min
Chandra Wickramasinghe, team at Cardiff Univ. warn that there are more, and we should prepare
1000’ Apophis would cause widespread regional to continental devastation
Historical Impacts: two-mile wide crater in S Iraq 4kya, Comet in Germany 200BC, Dark Ages 536
Definite affects on Civilizations; Ancient Symbols/Terminology in China & Germany: sky dragons
Spears, swords, scythes, torches, witches, brooms sweeping away the old
Extraordinary Meteoric Display Across Canada 1913 in Journal of British Astronomical Assoc.
Wide guess of how many – Up to 100; Object size - estimated largest were over 100 feet each
Traveled thru the atmosphere over 2500 miles and skipped back out to space
Comparison of sizes of Tunguska object and 2001YB5 that was almost 1000’ (31:30 opt Break)
Meteor Shower Radiant – picture the material is traveling thru space in a gravitational tunnel
Illusion of perspective – like train tracks are parallel but converge in the distance
Leonid shower images from active 2001 shower; Incoming fiery object reminiscent of serpent/snake
Washington, Kansas fireball meteorite June 25, 1890 report in American Journal of Science 1892
Tunguska reports that it came from (direction of) the Sun
Taurid Meteor Stream from larger object than now recognize as Comet Encke (2-3mile diameter)
Bi-annual crossing thru the streams orbit: late June and late November (don’t see Summer Taurids)
(jump thru multiple related slides)
Victor Clube, William Napier in “The Cosmic Winter” 1000+ a km or bigger Apollo asteroids!
Taurid Complex may have hundreds – many are very dark and undetected. Hephaistos is 10km
Neo-Catastrophists’ conclusions 1997 Cambridge Conference: Significant hazard since the Ice Age
France’s Lascaux Cave Painting from 14,500 BC - Taurus with Pleiades(?) and possibly Orion belt
Listing of identified objects from Stream, including Bruno Lunar impactor from 1178
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This series of 40+ lectures was an opportunity for Randall to organize and refine versions of his many PowerPoint shows. It was loosely formatted and presented to a casual group that had been assembling weekly for almost three decades in a dedicated room with their own signs, toys and models. Occasionally there are obtrusive interjections, off-hand remarks or other disruptions to his stream of consciousness. Please be tolerant of this eclectic class of true characters.
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