2019

February 12, 2019

Second suspected Greenland crater announced by NASA

Only at the Cosmic Tusk can you expect to see a major global announcement by NASA scooped by six weeks. Thanks to our blog’s most dedicated contributor, Steve Garcia: You heard it here first. See other, non-prescient, contemporaneous coverage here: NBC: Immense crater may have been found deep under Greenland’s ice sheet PhysOrg: NASA finds possible second impact crater under…

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Tusk TV

February 2, 2019

Cuba popped by meteor

The Tusk doesn’t generally report on current impact phenomena, and focuses instead on past impacts. But it never hurts to show some cool videos on a blog. First is from terrified residents of Vianales, Cuba on February 1st, 2019, shocked by the delayed arrival of the concussion, and staring in wonder and disbelief at the meteor ablation smoke trail lingering high in the atmosphere following…

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Con Younger Dryas Impact Papers Pro Younger Dryas Impact Papers

January 31, 2019

A concise but comprehensive bibliography of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis

Permanent home of the Bib and Archive Long on the list of goals here at the Tusk is to host the world’s most concise, attractive, accessible and informative bibliography of our favorite subject. A baby step in that direction is submitted below for your perusal, download and propagation. With the help of Marc Young, here is a list of what we believe is the best selection of journal articles…

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Popular Press Tusk TV

January 27, 2019

Oldie but goodie

11:05 No crater? 48:23 Jim Kennett in a wonderful moment During a fleeting period at the end of the last decade, a decade ago, the YDIH was a burgeoning mainstream topic. So popular in fact that the “Cadillac” of science TV, PBS NOVA, did an absolutely beautiful hour-long 2009 episode on the ice age comet discovery and its lead scientists. A few years later, it was noted the program…

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January 16, 2019

Stickmen

Some wag tweeted this funny cartoon today depicting the current state of affairs in Younger Dryas Boundary Research. The storyboard calls out The Bos and Vance Holliday for their willful ignorance with regard to the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis. The clever and extraordinarily well informed cartoonist points out the awkward position The Bos has created for himself (in the Washington Post no…

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Popular Press Tusk TV

January 2, 2019

Bright Insight

Jimmy at Bright Insight has posted a masterpiece of science and speculation concerning the YDIH. How do these guys do this? I would find it very, very difficult to prepare all this info and share it in such a coherent manner on camera. Some of his other videos are just tad too speculative, even for the Tusk, but he nails the facts of the YDIH and then proceeds with some entirely justified…

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Hiawatha Crater

January 1, 2019

Hiawatha Crater central peak

As most crater heads know, a “central peak” within a bowl shaped depression is diagnostic of a large “complex crater” resulting from a highly energetic (to say the very least) cosmic collision. Though NASA made an effort to point out the subtle peak features of Hiawatha Crater beneath a mile of erosive ice, the portion of their video revealing this crucial aspect of the…

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Second suspected Greenland crater announced by NASA

Cuba popped by meteor

A concise but comprehensive bibliography of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis

Oldie but goodie

Stickmen

Bright Insight

Hiawatha Crater central peak

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