DiscoveryNews:"Did a Comet Trigger The Great Chicago Fire?"

verfasst von RK, 07.03.2004, 19:25

-->Did a Comet Trigger The Great Chicago Fire?
By Irene Mona Klotz, Discovery News

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The Great Chicago Fire of 1871

March 5, 2004 — Perhaps it was not Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicking over a
lantern that sparked the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which destroyed
the downtown area and claimed 300 lives.

New research lends credence to an alternative explanation: The fire,
along with less-publicized and even more deadly blazes the same night
in upstate Wisconsin and Michigan, was the result of a comet fragment
crashing into Earth's atmosphere.

The comet theory has been around — and most often discarded — since at
least 1883, but Robert Wood, a retired McDonnell Douglas physicist,
said never before has the orbital parameters of the rogue comet been
taken into consideration.

<ul> ~ http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040301/comet.html</ul>

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• DiscoveryNews:"Did a Comet Trigger The Great Chicago Fire?" - RK, 07.03.2004, 19:25
  • Re: Did a Comet Trigger The Great Chicago Fire?/ und 'blöde auswanderer' - doppelknoten, 08.03.2004, 09:46
    • Re: Did a Comet Trigger The Great Chicago Fire?/ und 'blöde auswanderer' - Euklid, 08.03.2004, 10:00
    • Re: Did a Comet Trigger / und 'blöde auswanderer' - kizkalesi, 08.03.2004, 13:35
    • Re: Lieber doppelknoten, man ;-) - Firmian, 08.03.2004, 14:08
      • Re: Lieber doppelknoten, man ;-) entschuldigung"RK" - doppelknoten, 08.03.2004, 16:14
    • Re: Did a Comet Trigger The Great Chicago Fire?/ und 'blöde auswanderer' - Clarius, 08.03.2004, 14:11