[meteorite-list] Roman meteorite impact forced Cristianity

From: Steve Schoner <steve_schoner_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:16:29 2004
Message-ID: <20030805063927.4650.qmail_at_web12703.mail.yahoo.com>

Let's get some field collectors out there and get some
of Constantine's meteorite samples.

Now that would be great.

Steve Schoner/ams


--- "Charles R. Viau" <cviau_at_beld.net> wrote:
> The quote was as intriguing as the subject... first
> thought it was
> Latin, then Italian, but it is Portuguese.
> Thanks for that bit of immortal history, it goes in
> my permanent
> archives as "very interesting meteorite lore"
> -CharlyV IMCA 4351
>
> Thus:
> -Translated:
>
> "It is interesting that, so much in the legend of
> Sencinaro I eat in the
> vision of Constantino, the event apparently have
> occurred in the period
> from the afternoon, when the Sun began decline it.
> An epígrafe found
> nearby the localities of the impact can cause to
> Constantino. But today
> it is impossible himself say the flaming cross that
> the imperador saw
> beats with the event of Sirente, although the
> geographical proximity and
> storm do of that an interesting possibility",
> affirmed the Italian.
>
> Second Santilli, there is less than environment
> century the scientists
> began understand it happens what when a celestial
> object reaches the
> Land. The social and environmental consequences of
> those impacts would
> depend whose observes them, and when. The discovery
> from the crater of
> Sirente, affirms the archeologist, offers a rare
> possibility of straight
> connection between observations of field and a
> legend preserved during
> more of 15 centuries.
>
> "To tangle about the choice from the religion in
> that period may have
> been affected by a spectacular natural phenomenon",
> affirms Santilli.
>
> -end Translate
>
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> forced Cristianity
>
> A meteorite impact of the IV century AD might have
> converted Constantine
> and spread the expansion of Cristianity.
>
> The impact site is located in the Abruzzo
> (Italy)inside the Sirente
> Velino
> Regional Park, near Rome.
>
> Research has been carried out by the italian
> archaeologist Roberto
> Santilli
> with the support of a group of geologists.
>
>
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ciencia/ult306u9576.shtml
>
> <<
>
> "É interessante que, tanto na lenda de Sencinaro
> como na visão de
> Constantino,
> o evento tenha aparentemente ocorrido no período da
> tarde, quando o Sol
> começava a declinar. Uma epígrafe encontrada perto
> do local do impacto
> pode
> levar a Constantino. Mas hoje é impossível dizer se
> a cruz flamejante
> que
> o imperador viu bate com o evento de Sirente, embora
> a proximidade
> geográfica
> e temporal faça disso uma possibilidade
> interessante", afirmou o
> italiano.
>
> Segundo Santilli, há menos de meio século os
> cientistas começaram a
> entender
> o que acontece quando um objeto celeste atinge a
> Terra. As consequências
> ambientais e sociais desses impactos dependeriam de
> quem os observa, e
> quando.
> A descoberta da cratera de Sirente, afirma o
> arqueólogo, oferece uma
> possibilidade
> rara de conexão direta entre observações de campo e
> uma lenda preservada
> durante mais de 15 séculos.
>
> "A confusão sobre a escolha da religião nesse
> período pode ter sido
> afetada
> por um fenômeno natural espetacular", afirma
> Santilli.
>
> >>
>
>
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Received on Tue 05 Aug 2003 02:39:27 AM PDT