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Question – 96
Vyasa said that
loud bursts were heard in Kailash and Himavat regions. Are there any evidence of
asteroid / cometary fragments falling on these regions which seem to be in
Nepal?
Answer:
Landslides in
Langtang in Nepal situated 500 km to the east of Kailash are detected to have been
caused by a cosmic impact. The paper by Masch et al comes up with imprints of a
meteor crash in Langtang. It establishes,
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Impact
from Southwest and debris flow also in Southwest which match well with the meteor
direction given in the Mahabharata.
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Formation
of SiO2-glass filled crevasses in autochthonous gneiss to a depth of 5 m are detected
which is possible only in meteor crashes. The rocks (gneiss) contain 20 - 40%
quartz, thus SiO2, which liquefied and flowed along the rock surfaces. A
similar formation was found in the meteor crash in Atacama Desert.
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Minimum
temperature on the autochthone gneiss surface of more than 1,520 C (based on
Glass melt) is possible in an impact and not in regular landslides.
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Similarly,
the host rocks deformed in a brittle mode point to heat associated with meteor
impact.
The rock melting
heat does not stem from sliding, but from the immediate impact of the meteor
onto the rock mountain range. The meteor scraped at a 45-degree angle along the
rock face at a 5,000 m mountain altitude. It scraped 4 km along the rock,
therefore the rockfall is unusually 4 km wide. As the meteor scuffled through,
loosening the debris on the way, it was heard as thousands of explosions of
summits tumbling down – “sahasraśo mahāśabdaṃ śikharāṇi patanti ca” – to quote
Vyasa.
The period of this
impact is not yet established scientifically but what makes this an event of 3136
BCE is the latitudinal match of this site with Mohenjo-Daro, where the Lower
Town suffered a calamity, explainable by a meteor crash. These two sites lie almost on the same
latitude and an extended line connecting them, crosses the Persian Gulf -
another probable location of the crash that could have possibly caused the
Biblical flood explained in the previous question.
Three crash sites in same latitude
A group of
fragments falling and landing at the same latitude is highly probable. Langtang
(28.15 N) and Mohenjo-Daro (27.32 N) are latitudinally one degree away from
each other. Hastinapura (29.16 N) comes within the same range. The marked
location at the Persian Gulf is almost at the same latitude. Since the other
three regions (Langtang, Hastinapura and Mohenjo-Daro) received the impact from
South- Southwest, the effect at the Persian Gulf would have pushed the waters
towards North-North East, up to Mount Ararat. This could have been more
devastating to the Mesopotamian regions than the tsunami effect from the
Burckle impact near Madagascar, in 2920 BCE.
The crash-range
shown covers the rivers that suffered reversed flow of water on account of the
gush of wind accompanying the falling fragments which was explained in Question
58
