The Canterbury Swarm and the Taurids

An exploration of the concept of the Canterbury meteor swarm and its links to the annual Taurid meteor shower and how these sometimes produce very large impacts on the moon and earth.

Papers:

"WAS THE FORMATION OF A 20-KM-DIAMETER IMPACT CRATER ON THE MOON OBSERVED ON JUNE 18, 1178?", J. Hartung, 1976

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1945-5100.1976.tb00319.x/abstract;jsessionid=D85196C7C7283D5A29144C13D0C843A8.f04t03

"The Flux of Kilogram-sized Meteoroids from Lunar Impact Monitoring" Suggs et al, 2014

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1404/1404.6458.pdf

Also:

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/home/Lunar_strike.html

"The Canterbury Swarm: Ancient and Modern Observations of a New Feature in the Solar System", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society (16), 476, Brecher, 1984

"The structure and evolution of the Taurid Complex" (1991). Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc. 251, 632-648, with D. I. Steel and D. J. Asher.

Napier and Steele:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/11/1107_031107_taurids.html

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/405/3/1901/966774/Palaeolithic-extinctions-and-the-Taurid-Complex

Music:
Cylinder Eight by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Dark Fog by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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