New Discoveries Indicate Major Meteor Impacts May Happen Once Every Few Thousand Years!

'Band of misfits' Theory: Meteors Are Not That Rare

"At the southern end of Madagascar lie four enormous wedge-shaped
sediment deposits, called chevrons, that are composed of material from
the ocean floor. Each covers more than 100 square kilometers with
sediment hundreds of meters deep.

On close inspection, the chevron deposits contain deep-ocean
microfossils that are fused with a medley of metals typically formed by
cosmic impacts. And all of them point in the same direction - toward
the middle of the Indian Ocean where a newly discovered crater, 29
kilometers, or 18 miles, in diameter, lies 3,800 meters, or 12,500
feet, below the surface.

The explanation is obvious to some scientists. A large asteroid or
comet, the kind that could kill a quarter of the world's population,
smashed into the Indian Ocean 4,800 years ago, producing a tsunami at
least 183 meters high, about 13 times as big as the one that inundated
Indonesia nearly two years ago. The wave carried the huge deposits of
sediment to land.

Most astronomers doubt that any large comets or asteroids have crashed
into the Earth in the past 10,000 years. But the self-described "band
of misfits" that make up the two-year-old Holocene Impact Working Group
say astronomers simply have not known how or where to look for
evidence."


Hmmm. Noah's flood comes to mind!


"Scientists in the working group say the evidence for such impacts
during the past 10,000 years, known as the Holocene epoch, is strong
enough to overturn current estimates of how often the Earth suffers a
violent impact on the order of a 10-megaton explosion. Instead of once
in 500,000 to 1 million years, as astronomers now calculate,
catastrophic impacts could happen every few thousand years."

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/14/news/meteor.php


The Egyptians did speak of more than one great flood!

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