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Re:A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Ag... by raducu on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @05:41AM (#28603412)
Does that mean there were two airbursts and not just one in the same place 9000 years apart?

Not disputing that, but my interpretation would be that there was just one airburst that covered both cities.

Re:A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Ag... by kuschku on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @05:50AM (#28603444)
Jericho and Tall el-Hammam were destroyed in the same airburst, in the same place (~22km distance, ~same time).

Abu Hereya (several hundred kilometers away, 9000 years earlier) was also discussed in the article, and is a separate impact.

Re:A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Ag... by yosito on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @06:39AM (#28603682)
Jericho? Isn't that the city with the biblical story of God knocking down the walls from the inside out? I wonder if there's a connection.
Re:A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Ag... by yxhuvud on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @07:02AM (#28603787)
The more obvious connection is with Sodom & Gomorra being destroyed by divine wrath. Evidence of high temperatures and increased salinity..
Re:A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Ag... by 13of40 on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @08:30AM (#28604367)
Having driven through Sodom, which is situated on the dead end of the dead sea, next to the apocalyptic salt factory they have there, it boggles my mind that you would be able to measure "increased salinity". What I'm saying is the dirt itself is half salt.
Re:A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Ag... by dhosek on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @09:21AM (#28604769)
"Apocalyptic salt factory" in Sodom creates an image in my mind of a factory whose salt comes from the pillars of salt left behind by all the people leaving Sodom but stopping to look back.
Re:A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Ag... by BurningFrog on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @08:47AM (#28604523)
That's what you'd expect after an "increased salinity" event.
Re:A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Ag... by dr_zoidberg on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @08:29AM (#28604353)
The linked study mentions the possibility of Tall el-Hammam being Sodom, but they specifically say thats a whole line of study in itself and they won't go into details in the paper.
Re:A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Ag... by yxhuvud on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @09:17AM (#28604747)
Yes, they did avoid derailing the study very nicely.
Re:A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Ag... by Arech on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @11:59AM (#28617919)
It worth actually to follow links to Abu Hureyra paper [1] to learn that this event is considered not as a solitary impact, but just one in a series of events across four continents. Abu Hureyra's paper also reference paper [2] with a telling name "Evidence for deposition of 10 million tonnes of impact spherules across four continents 12,800 y ago". Here's a fragment of conclusion from that paper:

"The geographical extent of the (Younger Drias) YD impact is limited by the range of sites available for study to date and is presumably much larger, because we have found consistent, supporting evidence over an increasingly wide area. The nature of the impactor remains unclear, although we suggest that the most likely hypothesis is that of multiple airbursts/impacts by a large comet or asteroid that fragmented in solar orbit, as is common for nearly all comets. The YD impact at 12.8 ka is coincidental with major environmental events, including abrupt cooling at the YD onset, major extinction of some end-Pleistocene megafauna, disappearance of Clovis cultural traditions, widespread biomass burning, and often, the deposition of dark, carbon-rich sediments (black mat). It is reasonable to hypothesize a relationship between these events and the YDB impact, although much work remains to understand the causal mechanisms."

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-60867-w

[2] https://www.pnas.org/content/110/23/E2088