The material on this page is largely developed from work produced by Randal Carlson, Graham Hancock and a group of 63 scientists called the Comet Research Group. Some additional information comes from Impact at Hiawatha, the rest is mine. ![]()
What are Taurids and the Taurid meteor shower?
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Taurids are semi-annual meteor showers that take place in June and Nov over a 12 day period.
This meteor shower appears to emanate from the Tauris (bull) constellation. Wiki Taurus (Latin for "the Bull") is one of the constellations of the zodiac, which means it is crossed by the plane of the ecliptic. The 23.5º axial tilt of the Earth precesses 360º over 25,772 yrs or 1º every 71.6 yrs, therefore, every 2,148 yrs we migrate from 1 of 12 celestial constellations or zodiac signs to the next. |
The equinox is the point where the sun relative to the Earth crosses the celestial equator, this alignment cuts through constellations as the Earth precesses. We are currently migrating out of Pisces (the fish) (This age is Jesus' connection to making his disciples fishers of men Matthew 4:19) and early Christian's use of the fish symbol.
Currently we are migrating out of Pisces and into the zodiacal sign of Aquarius, Hence the 5th Dimension song,
Let the SUNSHINE in with the words "this is the dawning of the age of Aquarius" |
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The Taurid meteor shower comes from a comet that was at least 100 km in diameter (62 mi) and began breaking up around 20 to 30 thousand years (ka) ago.
Comet Encke is the largest remnant of this break up 4.8 km (3 mi) and asteroid 2004 TG10 at 1.32 km (0.8 mi) in diameter is the second largest remnant. Traveling at 2.6 million km per day (1.6 Mmi) it takes Earth 12 days to pass through the debris of the Taurid meteor shower. Encke is a 3.3 year period Apollo comet (dominated by ices), 2004 TG10 is a 3.3 year period Apollo asteroid (dominated by rock). Both Encke and TG10 are believed to come from the same object indicating this object was large enough to be separated (differentiated) by gravity into layers of ice, rock and metal. |
Comet Encke and asteroid 2004 TG10 are part of the Polana asteoid family group.
The red dots in this graph are the Nysa-Polana-Eulalia family. The frost line is about 2.5 to 3 AU from the Sun. The Polana family, reside close to the frost line and orbit around 2.5 AU. Ceres is the largest asteroid (945 km diameter) in the main belt and is considered a dwarf planet. Ceres semi-major axis is 2.77 AU and has a crust of ice and possibly a subsurface ocean and a rocky core. |
Objects beyond the frost line tend to be ice dominant while objects inside the frost line tend to be rocky. The asteroid belt is organized by Jupiter's gravitational resonance into clustered zones of objects called Kirkwood gaps or zones of resonance. The Polana family orbit in the 3:1 resonant kirkwood gap created by Jupiter's orbit and gravitational influence. This would have the effect of clustering objects near each other and perhaps more than 30,000 years ago two of these larger differentiated objects collided sending bits hurling toward the Earth forming the Apollo group of Taurids, some of which, impacted Earth. Other's impacted later creating the Younger Dryas cold spell or they were simply gravitationally perturbed by Jupiter into near Earth orbits known as Apollo groups. |
The Tunguska impact took place in June of 1908, same time as the Taurid meteor shower.
Graham Hancock uses the Tunguska impact as supportive evidence that the Taurid meteor shower is the source of impact material that has led to so many recent historical impacts on Earth. I find it a mute point to suggest the Taurid meteor shower is the source of impacts on Earth as there are plenty of recorded impacts outside the June, November time frame. |
Take for example the Russian Chelyabinsk meteor in Februray of 2013. It was a complete surprise to everyone. Without any forewarning, it just showed up exploded and injured about 1,500 people.
The same thing happened on December 18th 2018 over the Bering Sea. A meteor 10 meters in diameter, with a mass of 1400 tons impacted with an energy of 173 kilotons of TNT. The impact energy was about 10 times that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. The troubling thing about these asteroids is not that they occur, its that we had no idea they existed until after they hit Earth. |
On October 31, 2015, a 625 m asteroid passed within 1.27 lunar distances to Earth and was only discovered about a month prior to closest approach.
Wiki It is estimated that there are about 2400 near-Earth asteroids 300–500 meters in diameter, of which about 1100 have been discovered.[18] That means by our own estimates, we are aware of less than half of the asteroids capable of sending us back to the dark ages. While NASA and ESA are monitoring as many Earth threatening objects as they can, they can't monitor what they aren't aware of. |
Something I struggle with regarding most scientific statements is how most of them assume all activities which created the planets and moons in our solar system took place in the first 500 million years then everything seems to have stopped for 4 billion years.
Our solar system is in a continual process of change. From 1994 to 2013 (19 years) there have been 556 bolide (asteroid) impacts on Earth. Wiki quote A bolide is an extremely bright meteor, especially one that explodes in the atmosphere. In astronomy, it refers to a fireball about as bright as the full moon. |
This is a subject often ignored and brushed aside with the suggestion large scale impacts only took place 66 million years ago, like the one that drove the dinosaurs extinct. But the truth is, we could be wiped out without warning and without any real prior knowledge at any time.
NASA likes to say they are aware of thousands of impactors as if that's the sum total of the asteroid beehive but there are potentially tens of thousands of orbital bodies and debris that could impact Earth undetected at any moment. |
When Europeans arrived at the Americas there were no horses or camels in existence on this continent. Horses had to be brought to the Americas by the Europeans and very quickly the native Americans greatly valued and adapted to using them.
Consider how ridiculous it is to think people 13,000 years ago hunted all megafauna to extinction including the tamable horses and camels. Instead of using horses like a sports car to help them hunt other larger faster prey, they simply slaughtered them all along with all other magafauna, on foot, while their own human numbers had been reduced by 50%, this scenario makes no sense! Image credit Amanda Hukill Fine Art America. >>>>>> |
The Pleistocene runs from about 2.6 million years before present (BP) to 11,700 BP.
Gradual warming of the planet has been taking place since the Last Glacial Maximum (27,000 to 24,000 BP) but this warming trend was interrupted by a 1,300 year significant cold spell snap referred to as the Younger Dryas stadial period. Stadial periods are cold periods while interstadials are warm periods. These are SHORT time scale cycles. Glacials and Interglacials refer to the 100 kyr cycles associated with Milankovitch cycles (aka axial tilt alignment to the Sun along with orbital eccentricity creating long scale cyclical warming and cooling processes). These are LONG scale cycles. Shorter term stadials and interstadials are defined by the actual oxygen 18-isotope temperature record found in drill core samples extracted from glaciers. |
Dryas Octopetala is an eight (octo) petal (petala) flowering plant whose pollen is used in association with dating the Dryas periods.
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Chicxulub ImpactThe Chicxulub impactor was about 9.7 km (6 mi) in diameter, created a 185 km (115 mi) crater, impacted 66 million years ago, killed the dinosaurs and 80% of all life, caused temperatures to plummet, laid down a global sedimentary layer, created flooding from 305 m (1,000 ft) tsunamis and created global earthquakes. And at the low-end estimate of 10.1 on the Richter scale, the subsequent earthquake would have been more powerful than anything ever measured or experienced by humans. “A seismic event of this size would be the equivalent of all the world’s earthquakes for the past 160 years going off simultaneously,” says Rick Aster, professor of seismology at Colorado State University. |
The real devastation from the Chicxulub impact would have taken place in the days, weeks or months following the impact as dust and water vapor blocked the Sun and hot debris fell out of the sky setting the entire world's forests on fire.
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Comet 67P is approximately 4.3 by 4.1 km (2.7 by 2.5 mi) at its longest and widest dimensions.[10] Wiki quote Comet 67P probably originated in the Kuiper belt and was ejected towards the interior of the Solar System, where later encounters with Jupiter successively changed its orbit. Up to 1840, the comet's perihelion distance was 4 AU (600 million km), too far for the Sun to vaporize the nucleus. In 1840 Jupiter changed the orbit to a perihelion distance of 3 AU (450 million km), and later encounters further decreased that distance to 2.77 AU (414 million km).[43] In February 1959, a close encounter with Jupiter[44] moved Churyumov–Gerasimenko's perihelion inward to about 1.29 AU (193 million km), where it remains today.[14][43] Comet 67P is regularly perturbed by Jupiter and this interaction has changed it's orbit several times. It is about half the size of the Chicxulub impactor and would certainly break up into at least two separate objects as it entered our atmosphere. If this comet hit Earth it would certainly cause global climate change, lay down a global sedimentary layer, cause mass extinctions and depending on impact location could cause massive flooding. These are common signatures of larger scale impacts. Considering Jupiter alters Comet 67P's orbit regularly, it is entirely possible that this comet could someday impact Earth. |
The Hiawatha impact crater in Iceland could have taken place while humans were on the planet 12,900 years ago during the Younger Dryas period.
Its the third largest known impactor at 1.5 km (0.9 mi) in diameter forming a crater 31 km (19 mi) wide. Another video about the Hiawatha crater
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During the Younger Dryas period, most northern hemisphere temperatures declined rapidly (in a decade or less) 2 to 6 degrees Celsius (3.6 to 10.8 Fahrenheit) but in some North American locations the temperature actually warmed.
That is to say, around 12,900 BP, while temperatures were gradually increasing, they stopped rising and dropped dramatically and rapidly similar to previously known impact scenarios. 1,300 years after the start of the YD (11,600 yr BP) a sudden increase in temperature occurred. This was the end of the Younger Dryas and some interesting stuff took place on a planetary scale at 11,600 BP. Since Earth has a climate, erosion destroys much of the evidence left behind by impactors but there are other traces left behind that make it possible to identify global scale catastrophic events born out of impacts, such as, wide spread unique sedimentary layers, mass extinctions, climate change and ocean level rise aka meltwater pulse (MWP). |
Meltwater Pulse 1a (MWP1a) a sudden sea level rise, took place between 12,600 and 11,900 yr BP, directly within the onset of the Younger Dryas' initial cold stadial period and the sudden interstadial warming period which ended the ice age.
Wiki quote The chronology of flooding events found by the study of numerous cores on the Louisiana continental shelf and slope are in agreement that the timing of meltwater pulses. For example, meltwater pulse 1A in the Barbados coral record matches quite well with a group of two separate Mississippi River meltwater flood events, MWF-3 (12,600 radiocarbon years ago) and MWF-4 (11,900 radiocarbon years ago). |
Current theories for explaining the extinction of the megafauna is that they were over hunted by humans but at the same time the megafauna go extinct, the human population is reduced by 50%.
Hunter gather's certainly hunted larger prey but would have primarily foraged for food and hunted smaller game and fish as it was far safer and easier to do so. Nano diamonds mark the boundary of the Younger Dryas impact splatter. Update March 8, 2019 |
The Sphinx was purportedly created by pharaoh khufu 2589-2566 BC but this assumption has absolutely no real supporting evidence. Egyptologists assume Pharaoh Khufu created the sphinx during the 4th dynasty but water weathering erosion makes it at least 10,000 years BP (John Anthony West, Robert Schock). |
At least 200 non Egyptian geologists (especially the original Robert Shock) which have studied the weathering patterns on the enclosure walls around the sphinx concur, it is at least ten thousand years old and more likely 11,600 BP from the time of the Younger Dryas.
The Giza Plateau has been a desert with minimal rain fall for 10,000 years yet the enclosure walls show significant signs of water erosion weathering. According to the geologist Robert Shock, this water erosion is not from Nile flooding or wind it is clearly torrential rain fall erosion. |
This means the Sphinx was cut out at least six thousand years before the Egyptian pharaohs existed and pharaoh Khufu was not responsible for its creation.
An advanced civilization existed thousands of years prior to the Egyptian pharaohs (3,200 BC) and this society created the Sphinx. This means the sphinx which is part lion, part man, an object facing eastward would have been oriented toward the constellation of Leo the lion from 12,500 BP to 10,000 BP which encompasses the Younger Dryas period. The sphinx was buried almost to its neck in sand for hundreds or thousands of years in a desert which sees little if any rainfall. The enclosure walls weren't exposed until their excavation in 1936. |
Robert Shock introduces an interesting concept into this meteor impact scenario causing the rise and fall of previous civilizations.
He suggests a rise in solar activity could be to blame and uses microstratigraphy of Greenland ice cores to place dates to within days or weeks not decades, century's or millennia. Utilizing this data from ice cores, Solar activity became much more active 9,600 BC (11,600 BP) according to this graph aka end of the YD and could have been responsible for the upward warming trend. Shock also suggests comet impacts on the Sun would increase the solar coronal mass ejections thus increasing lighting strikes on Earth which create microspherules. |
Pyramid Meidum built by Pharoah Sneferu 2686-2613 BC was constructed prior to the three large pyramids at Giza. Sneferu first built the failed Meidum pyramid then the failed Bent pyramid in Dahshur then the successful Red (North) pyramid.
The Meidum pyramid was constructed prior to the pyramids at Giza and if the sphinx was built by the same pharoah that built the first pyramid at Giza then the sphinx would have to be younger than Medum. However, compare the lack of water erosion of Meidum to the obvious water erosion on the walls around the sphinx.
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Brien Foerster video While I don't agree with some of his interpretations, Brien Foerster has some very interesting pictures of Egyptian stone work. Its easy to dismiss all of a persons concepts when a few don't ring true, nevertheless, its difficult to argue with some of the presented evidence. |
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R. Shock uses increased volcanic activity to explain the platinum and iridium deposits, however, to find mircospherules, nano diamonds, platinum and iridium at every Clovis site where lightning would had to have struck to form the microspherules seems a little too coincidental to be from Solar activity, followed by lightning strikes followed by volcanic activity at each of 50 Clovis sites.
In addition to that argument, current solar activity is increasing according to Shock's chart and global temperatures are rising slightly within a longer term cold period, but we don't observe an increase in cometary impacts on the Sun. Since the existence of complex life on Earth, temperatures have risen and fallen. We are currently in the second coldest global period since 550 million years ago, the YD falls within this period. |
Seven thousand years before the great pyramids of Egypt (12,000 BP), a henge larger than Stone Henge was built in Gobekli Tepe Turkey. Gobekli Tepe (GT) carvings may support a massive comet strike 10,950 BC, (12,950 BP) right at the onset of the Younger Dryas.
The stones have zodiacal animals carved in 3D, (the animals extend outward from the stone as the stone was cut away leaving the raised images) quite sophisticated for its time. This 3D stone carving occurred prior to the existence of metal tools, by hunter gatherers. |
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Taurus the bull is clearly depicted here on this monolith and may be a reference to the Taurus constellation or even the Taurid meteor shower (probably not). Dr Martin Sweatman, of the University of Edinburgh’s School of Engineering, who led the research, said: "I think this research, along with the recent finding of a widespread platinum anomaly across the North American continent virtually seal the case in favour of (a Younger Dryas comet impact). "Our work serves to reinforce that physical evidence. What is happening here is the process of paradigm change. "It appears Göbekli Tepe was, among other things, an observatory for monitoring the night sky. “One of its pillars seems to have served as a memorial to this devastating event – probably the worst day in history since the end of the ice age.” This science paper by Martin B. Sweatman, Alistair Coombs submitted may 2018 called; Decoding European Palaeolithic art: Extremely ancient knowledge of precession of the equinoxes, explains in detail why this site is spectacularly unusual. |
No evidence of any human dwellings has been located at Gobekli Tepe (however, only ten percent of the site has been excavated).
Graham Hancock uses Gobekli Tepe's (GT) sophisticated carvings and massive megolith's as evidence there was an advanced society intermingled with hunter gatherers twelve thousand years ago following a catastrophic impact. I'm not completely convinced by this argument as there are multiple similar sites within 100 km (62 mi) of Gobekli Tepe. Update 1/5/2020
After learning a great deal more about GT, I am not convinced there is anything mystical about this site. The alignment of the large central pillars are very random. The shorter pillars in the outer ring of walls have been relocated into increasingly smaller circular structures so they are not in their original positions or alignments. The high and low relief carved animals seem to be representative of local fauna with each building dominantly represented by one particular clan's animal. There are thousands of flint stones, bones, rocks and ateliers (workshops) at GT which were used in the construction of the pillars. |
To me the story of GT goes something like this:
Gobekli Tepe was a ritual center or festival site built to bring small nearby sedentary communities together for an annual or semiannual feast festival (similar to Stonehenge) where people performed ritualistic acts, ate, got drunk, danced, partied and looked for a mate from neighboring communities. As each community grew in size over the course of 1,500 years, they built their own ritual center and had local feasting festivals. This reduced the need to travel to GT eventually eliminating the need to go there at all. When each surrounding clan grew large enough, they could find local partners and support local (albeit smaller) fertility and ancestral veneration ritual centers and feast festival parties. In essence, after 1,500 years, Gobekli Tepe finally became a victim of its own success. |
If the structures had roofs then they were not used to align their pillars with celestial objects or constellations. The pillars were most likely used to support a roof.
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To the left is one interpretation of what the round structures at Gobekli Tepe probably looked like. There are two reasons to think they were roofed structures.
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It is highly questionable whether the pillars held any real astronomical alignment significance primarily because the pillars were moved multiple times as each concentric wall was built. However, the central tallest two pillars most likely remain in their original position but their alignments are mostly random and point to nothing in particular in the heavens even though much effort has been put into proving the contrary. It seems more likely, to me, these buildings were used as a sacred place for harvest festivals, matrimony and possibly dispute resolution. Gobekli Tepe was created prior to the creation of pottery or metals, the pillars were formed by stones and bones mostly flint. |
Update March 4, 2020 In this video Dr Miano presents some excellent information that totally destroys this whole Atlantis/Plato concept. Definitely worth a watch. |
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Ancient painting previously thought to have been prehistoric animal symbols are ancient star maps, experts have recently revealed. A new scientific study has revealed that humans had a sophisticated knowledge of stars and constellation more than 40,000 years ago. |
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Carving and erecting massive stone megaliths without metal tools containing 3D representations of animals with astronomical and zodiacal alignments requiring a collective cooperative effort, an organized agricultural society at a time when we thought mankind was only capable of foraging and spearing their prey qualifies as advanced, in my opinion, however, not mystical or magical. |