Randall Carlson

I am, yeah.

The details, it was roughly equivalent to a 15 megaton hydrogen bomb, 15 million tons of TNT.

That would be, if that object had exploded over any urban area in the world, that urban area would have been obliterated.

just like the size, again, of a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb.

That's 15 million tons of TNT.

Now, if you look at the structure of a comet nucleus, it's possible that a comet nucleus disintegrating could produce a million Tunguska-sized objects or some even much bigger.

It takes millennia for that material then to clear out.

We still cross, the Earth still crosses the torrid meteor stream twice each year.

Late October, early November, and it's been referred to sometimes as the Halloween meteors because they happen to peak right about Halloween, right?

Then later in the summer, end of June, early July, we cross what are the summertime torrids.

And it's the same stream, but in the summer, we're crossing it as the meteors are coming in.

to the Earth's orbit, right, from farther out, from the orbit of Jupiter.

They come in, they make their passage around the Sun, which we would call the perihelion passage, and then on their way back out again, the Earth crosses them during the fall.

And it's well known by astronomers who've studied this that once upon a time in the past, they were probably way more active than they are now.

And one of the theories is that around, get this, around 25,000 years ago, a gigantic comet was dislodged from the Kuiper disk.

We know the Kuiper disk because...

There's two types of comets, short period, which are comets that say, like Halley's Comet is a short period, every 76 years it comes around, right?

There are long period comets that maybe are such a long period that they come in and then they never come back again.

You know, the one that the interstellar object that just came through last fall, right, was...

You remember what was the name of the interstellar object?