Heard of the Köfels’ Impact Event?
I hadn't before today. Apparantly the Sumerians witnessed and recorded it.
On 29th June 3,123BC (very close to the start of the ancient Mayan Long Count), an asteroid gouges a 2 kilometre cut out of the mountain overlooking Austrian Köfels, releasing 14,000 Megatons, "producing not a crater, but the demolition of the mountain into the gigantic landslide we see today."
An event surely worthy of starting a calendar anew - even more so if there were multiple events of this type (my speculation).
The book has just been released, available at Amazon:
A Sumerian Observation of the Köfels' Impact Event
On 29th June 3,123BC (very close to the start of the ancient Mayan Long Count), an asteroid gouges a 2 kilometre cut out of the mountain overlooking Austrian Köfels, releasing 14,000 Megatons, "producing not a crater, but the demolition of the mountain into the gigantic landslide we see today."
An event surely worthy of starting a calendar anew - even more so if there were multiple events of this type (my speculation).
The book has just been released, available at Amazon:
A Sumerian Observation of the Köfels' Impact Event
posted by Rob at
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
2 Comments:
Can anyone find this on google maps? I found something, but nothing looks unusual.
I looked on Google earth, and if you line up with the landslide from an angle, and then pull out into space, the apparent trajectory would have been directly over Mesopotamia.
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