I mentioned some comet theory earlier but hadn’t seen this article, until last night. I thought in the last post that the comet data was interesting but likely an isolated case. It seems more complicated now. It has repercussions past and present. It seems Earth is a shooting gallery target for Taurid chunks dating to a breakup from a “62-mile-wide comet 20,000 years ago.” Yikes!
Some quotes follow but RTWT.
these rocky lumps — far too large to have been left behind by Comet Encke — could be explained by the fragmentation of some giant, 62-mile-wide comet 20,000 years ago
in 2007 invoked the Taurid complex to explain global climate cooling at the start of a near-glacial period called the Younger Dryas and the sudden demise of the Clovis culture
he has predicted two years in the next decade when we are likely to pass near the center of the complex: 2032 and 2036.
“We now believe that the Taurid complex may contain many more objects of that [Tunguska] size. It is not the tame, simple and innocent complex we thought it was.”
Tunguska explosion in 1908 caused by asteroid grazing Earth