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> http://comets.amsmeteors.org/meteors/showers/taurids.html
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> For real devastation you need a huge meteorite or a small asteroid,
not
> just the usual small debris from disintegrating comets that forms
> meteor showers. When something like that happens (more or less once
a
> century) there's suddenly a blinding fireball overhead and then a
mighty
> bang. The witnesses wouldn't even know where in the sky it came
from.
Your source says the opposite of the Tunguska event, which it also
relates to comet Encke.
Some quotes from Frank Joseph's "The Destruction of Atlantis"
'The Taurid meteor stream is made up of pale debris, individually
bright but mostly innocuous grains, "the fossil remnants", as Clube
described the, of a great cosmic serpent that once dominated the
skies of the Earth.[Victor Clube & Bill Napier: 'The Cosmic Serpent']'
'The years have taken their toll on what, only ten centuries ago, was
a for more impressive event. During medieval times the "Taurids were
the most powerful shower", according to Russian astronomers Ivan
Astapovic and Dmitri Terenteva, spewing forty-two fireballs. "No
shower, not ecen the great ones, could be compared with them as to
activity."'
'Today's enfeebled Encke has a travelling companion known as Oljato,
an unusual rock on mile acroos. Although it appers o be an asteroid,
Oljato is actually the severed head of a dead comet, probably Encke's
close predecessor.'
'Clube & Napier insist that the chances of just three asteroids
sharing a orbit with Encke are less than one in a million. Yet, they
point out, as many as two hundred asteroids, each a little less than
a mile in diameter, belong to Encke's Taurid meteor system.'
'The celestial trigger that appears to have brought Encke-Oljato on a
near-collision course with our planet was discovered as recently as
fall 2001. According to Caroli, "Recalibrations ascertained and
published by astronomers at California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(J.P.L. Newsletter, vol 13, no 11 30 September 2001, La Jolla) reveal
that the Earth passed through the tail of Comet Halley in 1198 B.C.
when Pharaoh Ramses III recorded the fiery sinking of Neteru, an
apparent reference to Atlantis. The same kind of close encounter took
place in the early 20th Century, minus disastrous consequences. But
the brush with Comet Halley and with Encke-Oljato 3100 years earlier
added the extra gravitational impetus needed to push the latter comet
into a more confrotational attitude with the Earth. The arrival of
two major comets in 1198 B.C. coincides all too well with the mass-
destruction known to have swept around the world at that time"
(Caroli, personal communication, 9 November 2001). [Kenneth Caroli,
not mentioned for any publications]'
Torsten