Mammoths hit by Micrometeorites

[DavidU]

This would have hurt !
I wonder how common it may be?
http://ie.lbl.gov/mammoth/impact_old.html

[TrevorW]

bet you they had mammoth headaches ???

[multiweb]

That's where the old sayin' came from: "...never stay under a mammoth when there's a meteor shower" ;)

[renormalised]

Very interesting....I've heard of Mono Lake before, but never in conjunction with this. I'm going to look into this.

[DavidU]

Yes ! Very interesting.I don't know how 350micron< particles could be travelling so fast in an atmosphere.

[renormalised]

Airburst meteoroid or asteroid impact.

[DavidU]

I found something I read years ago. I wonder if it is related and if so just how much damage was done to early humans & fauna
http://www.s8int.com/page4.html
3/4 down the page

[DJDD]

:lol::lol::lol:

[renormalised]

Maybe, but a meteoroid the size large enough to leave a bullet sized hole wouldn't be traveling fast enough to do so in the first place, unless it was a fragment from an airburst close to the ground.

Who's to say it isn't a bullet hole.

[DavidU]

Maybe the almost total lack of guns and ammo 40,000 years ago?:D

[renormalised]

But how long is a metal rifle barrel going to last?? Even a plastic one would breakdown after a few thousand years:D

Plus, it could've been a time traveler protecting themselves:P:D

[DavidU]

Carl Carl Carl:lol:

[renormalised]

David David David:P:P:P:D:D:D