American Airburst: Comet fragments destroy ancient Midwest culture

George where is the original comments thread ? Thanks , Stuart Hamish

And do you have archived copies of the comments sections ?

I noticed Ken Tankerseley is the co author of a paper examining the evidence for the Kansas Brenham Impact Event dated to 1329 - 1470 CE George ...Are Ken and his colleagues aware the earliest 14th Century carbon dating ages correspond not only to chronicled comet sightings , quakes, poisonous mists and destructive meteor strikes in Europe, Asia - and probably the southern hemisphere - corroborated by ice core and peat mire geochemical data , but also the unresolved depopulation and final abandonment of the Mississipian Cahokia civilization in neighboring Missouri and Illinois after 1350 CE - at precisely the time plague and climatic chaos were wreaking havoc in the Old World ? Of interest to Chandra Wickramisinghe and his fellow astrobiologists are the first documented emergences of the Black Death pathogen in Mongolia and China in the 1320's [ See ' The Arrival and Spread of the Black Plague in Europe , M Snell , July 30 2019 ] that just so happen to coincide - starting circa 1320 - with dramatically reduced growth /temperature in northern and southern hemisphere deondrochronologies , biomass burning signals in the south Pacific , abrupt temperature downturns in the North Atlantic and Icelandic Shelf SST anomaly series and anecdotal records of a mass fatality meteor storm in China and a possible late June Beta Taurid swarm blotting the sun red for hours and flecking the lunar surface with black smudges [ reminiscent of the 1994 SL9 impacts on Jupiter ] observed in France in 1321 as reported in John Kelly's ' The Great Mortality ' : [ i] 1321 - 1323 - " It rained iron to the East of of Lake Erh - hai . Houses and hill tops were damaged with holes .Most of the people and animals struck by them were killed . It was known as the "iron rain " [ Meteorite falls in China and some related human casualty events ' , K Yau et al , Meteoritics 29 , 864-871 , Aug. 1994 ] [ii] 1321 - " at the end of June during a solar eclipse [ I suspect the solar eclipse anchored the description of the Beta Taurid meteor stream influx in the minds of eyewitnesses ] in Anjou and Touraine [ for ] a period of four hours on the twenty sixth , the afternoon sun appeared swollen and horribly engorged as if bursting with blood ; then during the night ,hideous black spots dimpled the moon as if the craters ..." Whether bacteria or viruses drifted down from cometary debris " downwind of the Himalayas' or terrestrial pathogens mutated into lethality as a consequence of the mix of chemicals in the atmosphere is a matter for future investigation . If it can be confirmed the Black Plague contagion originated in China or Mongolia in the 1320's Chandra's theory takes on a whole new dimension of credibility . In my humble opinion Chandra and the late Fred Hoyle have prevailed in this controversial debate as the convergence of conditions is much the same template as the 530's and 540's leading into the Justinian Plague