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	An Exploding Asteroid

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7-8-2008 11:55 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b81ce4f7-358c-4ca4-8883-cb2577479759/CC7F6968-4F5E-43E5-8400-C207657040AC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.astrobio.net/news/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2797" href="http://www.astrobio.net/news/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2797" style="font-size: 11px;">www.astrobio.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.astrobio.net/news/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2797"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD><TABLE cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><TBODY><TR><TD><DIV align="center"><IMG height="122" border="0" width="180" src="http://www.astrobio.net/articles/images/comet.jpg" /></DIV></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#c6d8f4" valign="top" class="caption"><DIV align="left">A new study shows that a comet or asteroid may have exploded over Canada and caused the Earth's climate to change at the end of the last Ice Age some 12,900 years ago.</DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.astrobio.net/news/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2797"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD><TABLE cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><TBODY><TR><TD><DIV align="center"><IMG height="137" border="0" width="182" src="http://astrobio.net/albums/origins/abl.jpg" /></DIV></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#c6d8f4" valign="top" class="caption"><DIV align="left">During the period known as the Younger Dryas, large mammals like wooly mammoths became extinct.<BR />Credit: <EM>USGS</EM></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.astrobio.net/news/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2797"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD><TABLE cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><TBODY><TR><TD><DIV align="center"><IMG height="121" border="0" width="178" src="http://astrobio.net/albums/meteor/ald.jpg" /></DIV></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#c6d8f4" valign="top" class="caption"><DIV align="left">Many scientists hypothesize that mass extinctions our planet’s history may well have been due to comet and asteroid impacts.<BR />Credit: <EM>NASA ARC</EM></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.astrobio.net/news/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2797"><DIV>Samples of diamonds, gold and silver that have been found in the region have been conclusively sourced through X-ray diffractometry in the lab of UC Professor of Geology Warren Huff back to the diamond fields region of Canada.</DIV><BR /><DIV>The only plausible scenario available now for explaining their presence this far south is the kind of cataclysmic <A target="_blank" href="http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1509">explosive</A> event described by West’s theory. 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